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Friday, 24 June 2022 I belong to the 1950 batch of homo sapiens, and wasn’t singled out for any special favours by the Creator when He was dishing out His divine gifts. So, as you can guess, I’m a pretty average Joe – average intelligence, average physique, average health, average abilities and skills; this last […]

If there are qualities our Prime Minister does not lack they are a soaring ambition and the self-confidence to believe that he can do anything he sets his mind to. These are, incidentally, the same qualities that Dedalus of Greek mythology possessed in abundance, and which brought him crashing back to earth, but since mythology

The Delhi police recently busted a kidney transplantation racket that targeted poor, homeless people, with the surgeries being carried out at a two-story house in a city not far from Delhi, allegedly by a class X dropout operation theatre technician. Several such others have been unearthed across the country over the years. The police found that the

Thursday, 9 June 2022 RELIGIOUS HATRED IS NOW ON AUTO-PILOT     So the BJP national spokespersons, Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal have now been served the first serving of their just desserts. But anyone who thinks that this represents a course correction for the party has to have the brain of a guinea fowl

All of a sudden, Nupur Sharma, the feisty, flamboyant ‘national spokesperson of the BJP’ became ‘a fringe element’ of the party. She was suspended for saying what would have been assumed, behind the closed doors of the party, as mere plain-speaking.  The question that Nupur Sharma would be asking now is: how does one know

 [ This piece is not about the IAS, it’s about dogs. ] I am a congenital dog lover and therefore I have to agree with Mrs. Maneka Gandhi on this one: the decision to exile the Delhi IAS couple of walking fame to Chinese claimed territories is hasty, disproportionate, over the top, and wrong. But

I am not an expert on Sabarimala. I am not an expert on anything. If anything, I am a generalist. I dabble with whatever comes my way. So for this post, I am exploring a question that may interest you as well: Why does the Sabarimala tradition deem the presence of women within the fertile

There is a quiet revolution taking place in the world, but as is usual with most good things, it is passing India by. This movement, about fifteen years old but gathering momentum, is variously known as Rewilding of Rivers or as Dams Decommissioning. Its premise is that dams belonged to a different era of environmental

Recently I read the book “In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed” and was totally captivated by it.  Partly, I suppose, because it resonated so deeply with me and how I live. From my childhood, I have been chastised for being slow for most of my life. I