The budget for the year 2020-2021 unveiled new projects for the development of a museum at Dholavira. It also unveiled new plans at other archaeological sites at Rakhigarhi, Shivsagar, Hastinapur, Adichallanur. These decisions created euphoria in an already enlightened crowd, who have suddenly taken a lot of interest in Indian history and culture. Since the…
“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Winston Churchill If someone asks you, “What do you understand by the word democracy?” what will you answer? Most of us answer, saying, “Why? I have the power to vote in my country, and that is my democratic right.” Well, my question…
“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…
(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…
(This article is the first in a two part series. The second part is published here) As the Homo Sapiens of India was gearing up for the National Register of Citizens (NRC), it occurred to the august minds of their winged, scaly, four-legged co-inhabitants of the earth to have a similar exercise. This was especially…
In our quest for life on other planets, we search for mostly one thing that may indicate a possibility of life ‘Water’. This is because life begins with water. At present, India is facing a daunting water crisis that threatens its environmental sustainability, and economic rise at the global level. At the domestic level, water…
If one wanted to understand how far political polarisation could reach in reality, one perhaps could not be in a better time than today. Not that one must wait for times like these to understand political polarisation, but when the times are so, one can feel the thrill of observing things, which can’t commonly be…
It appears that in life, we are in a zero-sum game. It is full of dichotomy and paradox of all kinds. On one side, the only solution for a society to be possible appears to be the rule of law, while on the other, we find the law looking at things in black and white….
News of a Bengali ‘Hindu’ family- a pregnant mother, a child, and the father, being lynched in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal is running through newspapers and social media. The authenticity and the real motives for murder are yet to be investigated, since there are plausible reasons to believe that it could be a…
Under the just lit fluorescent street lights and in the midst of a busy city bus stop at Mehdipatnam in Hyderabad, I was once slapped in my face by a person whose religious identity I did not know. After slapping me twice, the person warned me saying, “Hyderabad musalmaanon ka hein…Hyderabad mein muslamaanon hi rehna hain”…
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