Reflections
24. You don’t elect them for this
After a very long time I watched the Lok Sabha TV and also Rajya Sabha proceedings. It was indeed something that made me really worried. The members are paid well by the exchequer from the t...
23. When ordinary people chose to be extraordinary
J.L. Witterick is the international best-selling author of the novel, My Mother’s Secret. It was suggested to me by a friend living in Canada since I love to read Second World War books. He...
22. Where the world is heading to?
We see a major escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. According to the UN-backed experts an entirely man-made famine is taking place in Gaza’s largest city and its surrounding area amid d...
21. Sometimes lying serves the general good more effectively than truth telling does
It is said that the first and original lie was, when Satan told Eve: “You certainly will not die.” Let me narrate a true story – One Friday afternoon a young couple walked into a jewel...
20. असली हीरे की अंगूठी
"बस्तीगांव के मेले में किसीपनवाड़ी की दुकान का शीशाजिस पर इतनी धूल जम गई है कि अब कोई भी अक्स दिखाई नहीं देता।"यह सर्वेश्वर दयाल सक्सेना की एक कविता का टुकड़ा है। इसी बस्ती जिले का एक...
19. The time has come to sever
I bought Nikolai Bukharin’s Prison Poems in October 2023, along with 10 other books when Seagull Books, offered deep discount (40 percent to be precise). After all, you don’t get such offer every day....
18. A Business is a Business
Argentina is a great country. It was amongst the few countries where literacy rate was 98.07 per cent, way back in 2010, and taking into account the population that time, it had the highest number of...
17. What should be the right response?
Today watching all those baseless accusations and nonsense speeches on television by some political leaders I was contemplating what should be the right response and this quote came to my mind - ...
16. Something Like Alaskanian Romance
The much-awaited meeting has happened without providing us any comforting news. Despite all my good wishes for its success I was pessimistic about its outcome from the day one. Unfortu...
15. The Gandhian Hitler
This happened 25 years ago, at a boy’s hostel in Chandigarh’s Punjab University campus. Devinder Bhardwaj, a student of Gandhian studies, and his political science hostel mate Sanjeev Bragt...
14. La Marioneta, a Farewell Poem
It so happened that noted filmmaker Mrinal Sen received a poem from Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was seriously ill those days in 1998 (He died on 17 April 2014, much later).&...
13. Who Could Be Called a Happy Being
Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) refused to marry Paris Singer, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine company because she was not sure she could tolerate a settled life. Although she bore three child...