Reflections
48. When Rock Bottom Becomes a Solid Foundation
When someone lives life as it comes, without trying to change its course or choose a different path, they are said to follow their fate. Fate decides the direction of their life. Many people around us...
47. No dull moment with Khushwant Singh
It was February 2, 2007. I called Khushwant Singh and gleefully told him about my appointment as Editor of the Dalal Street Investment Journal. He asked me to repeat the name twice. &n...
46. What does it matter what religion we are?
Today was the day when, for the first time in recorded history, something happened that changed the course of history. Yes, on September 15, 1935, the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws that wer...
45. Let me have some Indian goodies to eat before protesting against Indians
We all are aware what is happening all over the world where just a few years back we used to hear the slogan like ‘global village’ and ‘the world is one’. Today I saw a viral video shared by a fr...
44. And that is how silence protects the aggressors
Personally, I lost faith in Indian judiciary when as a journalist I saw something at a High Court judge’s residence. Right before my eyes. But I’ll not go in details. Read between the lines. Since the...
43. The pleasure of being in a crowd
Octavia Estelle Butler, who became the first American science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship wrote: “Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they ha...
42. Civilized nations are like hunting-dogs
Anatole France was a French poet and novelist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.All his life he was around books. First as the son of a bookseller, and later as the librarian for the Franc...
41. A forced diktat doesn’t solve an issue
Today, around 105 years back, the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was signed in 1919 after the end of the World War I, between the Allies and the Republic of German-Austria. It was supposed to be a pe...
40. Books in the Boondocks...
I’ve been associated with the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, almost four decades – first as a book lover, a reader and then as a member of its Managing Committee. For more than 12 years I was a...
39. The Political Cynicism of Benjamin Netanyahu
I strongly believe that the October 7 massacre, when Hamas-led terrorists rampaged through southern part of Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping some 240 to Gaza, was a terro...
38. most of the religions of the world have been impartial to women
Despite its strategic location and rich mineral deposits, Afghanistan is a cursed place. As it sits where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, it is prone to powerful earthquakes. ...
37. let us make a crying child laugh
During the Covid period I made it a point to record all the useful and not very useful news in my diary – news gathered from online newspapers, TV, websites and twitter. Now I’m in the process of...