Sanjeeva Narayan’s Blog

DUTY VS OBLIGATION — AN ARCHETYPAL DISTINCTION

1. To provide the requisite perspective and enable better appreciation of this blog, I would like to begin with reference to a quotation that I have frequently seen on posters in many houses and which I have found always extremely relevant:-

“Charlie Bhai Sahib (aka B K Syngal — 1940–2022) — A Eulogy”

UNLEASHING THE HIDDEN POTENTIAL OF HIJRAS (EUNUCHS) AND MAINSTREAMING THEM INTO SOCIETY

Recently at the Mundan (“shaving a baby’s first hair on the head”) ceremony of my grandnephew and grandniece, I was witness to the auspicious yet unpleasant sight (depending on your view point — no offences implied or controversies…

Omnipresent Humanity

Sometime back (a time made to feel perceptibly like an eon by the pandemic which has engulfed the world and turned it topsy turvy) I had written on the need to identify, characterize and define individuals not by their caste, colour, region, religion or any such seemingly diverse characteristic but by…

NISHA DIDI — MY SOULMATE

Today Nisha Didi, the youngest amongst my four elder siblings would have celebrated her 70th Birthday. It has been almost 33 years since she departed for the Heavens. However, the ravages of time have in no manner dulled the precious memories of the time spent with her, the veritable calm and…