The other day when I was at the Chemist, a retired Air India employee came in with a prescription from an Air India dispensary. He looked morose. News had come in during the day that the company was finally being handed over to the Tatas to run by the government. The chronically loss-making company is […]
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I don’t know about you folks, but I found the obiter dicta by a two judge bench of the Supreme Court last week very disturbing. Hearing a petition by a farmers’ organisation ( not connected to the protests) for permission to congregate at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, the bench asked the question: Do the farmers
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Circe is the mythical Greek goddess- sorceress who ruled the island of Aeaea; any shipwrecked mariner who landed on its shores was turned into an animal- wolf, lion, swine- a fate which also befell the Greek hero Odysseus. In 1965 Nirad C Chaudhri, the last of the breed of Anglophiles, wrote a book of essays
WHEN DID WE BECOME SUCH A BRUTAL COUNTRY ? Read More »
O. Henry’s famous short story “The Cop and the Anthem” features Soapy, a homeless man who spends his New York winter in a low security prison by committing a petty crime, getting arrested and being sentenced for 3 months of the peak winter. His bed and board and heating were taken care of and, since
I’ve just discovered that my passport has expired, but after much deliberation I’ve decided not to renew it. I already have more ” citizenship” documents than I can handle in my advancing years- Aadhar card, EPIC, Domicile certificate, Driving licence, CGHS card, I.D. card, CSOI card, PAN card, Pension Life Certificate- and most of them
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To be inspired is to be filled and led by something beyond the self. It is to let something higher, something from beyond, into oneself to be continually guided, enabled and shaped by it. We can exist by ourselves, but we cannot be fully and vitally alive by ourselves. No man, as an English poet
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I have always believed that the houses we build for ourselves have anthropomorphic qualities, that they are as much part of our families as any other member, that they also share our feelings and emotions, that they reflect our own states of mind, that they too have their own destinies just as we do, destinies
OUR HOUSES ARE LIVING ENTITIES TOO – A TALE OF TWO HOUSES Read More »
October is the month we remember Mahatma Gandhi as his birth anniversary is on October 2nd. The UN also observes the day as the day as the International Day of Non-Violence While I have a lot of admiration for Mahatma Gandhi, there is a man I respect possibly even more. He is popularly known as
Himsa and Ahimsa – Does Non-Violence Have a Future? Read More »
The recent story of Pen Farthing made me think and ask an uncomfortable question. Now you may be asking just who exactly is Pen Farthing. He is a former British Marine , who after his stint was over, started a charity. The charity was based out of Afghanistan which by itself is not a bad
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