As cities grow, some essential parts of it go into hiding. The street stalls retreat into the inner folds of the new city, local ice cream vendors (for some reason called Mewad Prem across large parts of the country) turn coy and cede ground to nationally known brands, the baraf ka gola with its luscious… Read more »
Observing a recent religious ritual, one was struck by how much of the prayer had to do with individual desire. One didn’t know what exactly the shlokas being recited by the priest meant in Sanskrit, but going by the translation offered, it seemed as if the prayer was nothing but a laundry list of petulant… Read more »
We cannot call our parliamentarians names for fear of disrespecting the institution of the Parliament, we cannot forward mildly critical cartoons of a chief minister without being arrested. A historian cannot write a scholarly account of Sri Aurobindo’s life without effectively being thrown out of the country, we cannot protest against nuclear plants in our… Read more »
There is something magical about a lullaby. The experience of listening to one is quite unlike anything else. It is almost impossible to listen to one without responding to it with an emotion that one never fully understands. Even without knowing the words, we know exactly what a lullaby intends even if we are unable… Read more »
Can an election ever throw up the right candidate? Or to put it more moderately, is an election the mechanism best suited to throw up representatives that will strive to work for their constituents and attempt to better their life? Are there in-built into the electoral process, a set of imperatives that help pre-determine one… Read more »
That running a coalition government is not easy has been made obvious enough by the experience of the UPA government. If in its first innings, it was felt that the overbearing presence of the Left was stifling; in fact, the second innings started with a big sense of relief that the monkey was finally off… Read more »
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