Inside your heart, you might be a global citizen but your passport is there to remind you about our daily realities. All…
A generation that is marked by extensive fingering on electronic devices won’t spare few minutes to click a button begs several questions. One of them being: how exactly does democracy benefit from absenteeism? No, seriously. Staying at home enjoying a public holiday sounds more…
It’s that time of the year when we exercise our rights to bring new crooks into the Parliament. Once they are in, they’ll do everything except work. The numbers of bills and acts that are pending in our system is mindboggling. Smaller countries with bigger problems fare better in this regard. Be…
Mass protest is in the air. Turks are still pro-development but they can’t let a historic park disappear. Brazilians still love football but they can’t tolerate a price hike. They are frustrated people just like us. But they react appropriately whereas we remain inert. The…
I respect street dogs. I don’t love them as such but i do admire their ethics. Had i loved them, i’d have done a bit more than feeding them Parle-G every now and then. Speaking of which, almost all the dogs in my neighbourhood recognize me. It’s like saying “Sanpada ka kutta kutta jaanta hai mujhe” and…
There are LOTS of social issues with respect to caste. Foremost of all is the general economic disparity — the usual ‘rich is getting richer and poor is getting poorer’ cliché. The huge chasm between the rural India and the urban India is facing us. The overwhelming urge of the…
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Now that Anna-mania has substantially subsided in this country, I’m wondering what exactly makes a person hero in India. It’s an open secret that for a nation of more than 1.2 billion people, we face a severe drought of real-life icons. And Sachin alone won’t suffice.
OK. This is historical. No, I’m not talking about Obama’s India visit. I’m referring to Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest in Myanmar. And with her release comes the freedom to imagine democracy and all the goodness that it supposedly promises. She was awarded Nobel Peace Prize 20…
By all accounts, J&K has become a nerve-wrecking problem for all the stakeholders in that region right from the Kashmiris themselves to the mechanical arrangements that involves India and Pakistan in this long and complex arena of conflicts, apathy, pathos and despair…