Reflections
29. I’m not an addict; it’s just a habit
India is a false democracy, that’s what I strongly believe. The freedom, the democracy has accorded, is still misunderstood. Barring two political parties – Bhartiya Janata Party and the tw...
28. Let us live a lifetime in a minute
Today, I was again watching the 1992 American film ‘Scent of a Woman’, after a very long time. Filmgoers know that it was a box office success with stars like Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell. ...
27. You're sitting on my chair
These days US president Donald Trump is in news for all the wrong reasons. In his unpredictable and controversial style, he has opened a pandora’s box and now finding himself unable to fill it back.&n...
26. Sometimes I wish I could lose my memory
I love my wife. My wife is dead. I think about her all the time. I wish I had written letters to her before like the time we used to write to each other when we were young. But I am always too sl...
25. Israel is murdering the messengers
Another four journalists were killed by Israeli strikes on August 25, 2025. So, a total of ten journalists has been killed in just a fortnight. The strikes today on al-Nasser hospital...
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...