(This article on education received a book prize as part of the Republic Day OpEd contest organised by The ArmChair Journal) On 28th November of 2019, while surfing Facebook, I came across a picture of a burnt body. Not painted but photographed. A burnt, blackened human body. With the photograph of the body, was a…
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts.” While the Bard of Avon is known for his words of wisdom, the current American president has a knack of taking Shakespeare’s philosophies too seriously or…
The recent protests related to CAA claiming lives in the national capital have reminded people of horrific times like the 1984 Sikh riots. I was not born at the time of sikh riots, nor am I witness to the Delhi riots. All I know about it is through social media. In this context, the following…
Delhi witnessed unprecedented violence since 24 February 2020. Across the world, political protests and violence related to social unrest is a new reality. In India, ever since 11 December 2019, there has been an ongoing social movement against a new Citizenship Amendment law. Before that, the society was outraging against the various incidents of sexual violence against…
(This article won the best prize in the Republic Day OpEd contest organized by The ArmChair Journal) There is an emotion kept guarded all the time, which is at once more powerful than we can imagine. Wielded perfectly, it has the power to rise and reshape the world and its lives. George Orwell describes it…
I am a ubiquitous minuscule organism but never underestimate my potential. I am proficient in wreaking havoc. At the same time, the family I come from performs many essential functions for human beings. For instance, some of us protect our host cells from other infections. Yet some of us participate in the process of evolution…
As 2020 begins, the future of humankind is more vulnerable than ever. The global crisis of climate change is looming over humanity. Rising temperatures, wildfires, droughts, hurricanes are becoming part of our lives. Devastating bushfires, Amazon fires, melting icebergs in Antarctica show that we are headed to our doom. But our leaders don’t seem scared…
These social media stalkers (monsters in disguise) are increasing in number day by day, like zombies, infecting others and making their victims suffer from mental agony. It is unlikely that such malicious behavior is removed by imposing strict laws.
1. In the ingenious Malayalam movie, Kilukam, there is a dialogue that Mohanlal delivers, which is way too delicious. “Aval paranju…goodbye ennu paranju. Valare aduthupoyavarkum bandhathinte aazham nokaade evidevechum eppozhum kaikondu ingane oru goshti kanichu yaatra chodikanula oru vaakaanalo, goodbye…” Translation (the best I could do, but it is so pure in Malayalam): “She told…
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…
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