Sometimes I feel that a century has passed since the time when I used to be a child. Technically it hasn’t been more than 25-30 years but it seems that the world around has gone through a tremendous change, a complete unrecognisable makeover since the 1990s. Probably some of this change has rubbed itself on…
“Will you be my Valentine?” is a phrase now which we all are so familiar with. It has been used and reused so many times in so many places that it even sounds a bit “tacky” these days. I really don’t know how I would react if someone I met told me, “Will you be…
Cervantes said, “While we are asleep, we are all equal”. He may be right. But I genuinely have something else in mind. I say, “Nothing says we are all equal than while we are shitting”. In this whole hullabaloo of the world trying to say we are all the same, that we have the same…
In this article, I will talk about the life of women. I will address the most basic question- Can women live? Here the word life cannot be taken as existence. Living means living with guts, feelings, braveness, and honor. But when we see the world in which we live, the plight of women is such…
A flag is a necessity for all nations. Millions have died for it. It is no doubt a kind of idolatry which would be a sin to destroy Gandhi Earlier in May an year ago, travelling from Bangalore to Srinagar, I planned to visit Amritsar, Amritsar is a holy city, for Sikhs, famous for its…
I met a girl once who loved visiting beaches. She rejoiced in finding a quaint little spot to sit in solitude by the shore, grab a handful of sand and watch it let loose as the water took it away. She once took me with her, and I was amazed at what I saw then. …
About a month ago, I had an unsolicited experience that made me curious, and I wanted to share the same with you. I met a group of transgender people. They have communication networks through which they come to know about auspicious occasions and happenings such as marriages and baby showers. They come to such events…
It was like any other normal day. Hundreds of people wearing the same clothes entering a building around 8 am and leaving after around six hours, doing the same activities as always. You have probably guessed which building I am talking about, if not let me give you one more hint. Entering into this building…
There is nothing as powerful or as alluring as the Forbidden Fruit. That Adam and Eve can have everything, everything from the blue waters, enormous mountains, and peace and harmony between man and beast. They can have everything but the one fruit. It was near, and yet so far. It was like the carrot that…
My cousin is married to a constructor. She routinely has to cook for a large number of people her husband employs for his business. She has no housemaid and has to do all the household chores herself, in addition to the cooking. This obviously took a toll on her health. Her son, my nephew, noticing…
(This is the second in a two part fictional series. First part of this article is already published here) “Sapiens perceive spaces such as oceanic water and space as international spaces. Till now, the atrocities recollected were done by Sapiens within lands, which they perceive as sovereign and national. International spaces are, according to Sapiens…
Emotions like resentment transmogrifying into anger often acquire an unprecedented vigor. While the socio-political discourse can routinely be dominated by alienations and a whirlwind of ambiguities in thoughts defining political vibrancy, inherent resistance continues to be built on harsh realities. History has borne testimony to the fact that people’s sovereignty has managed to triumph over…
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