How do you know that you’re a good person? Do you even know if you want to be a good person? And what exactly is being good? Let’s take a few mundane examples. Speaking the truth, not hurting others, helping the poor, respecting elders, blah blah. Going by the well-established parameters set by our forefathers, [...]
Read On No CommentsHow do you know that you’re a good person? Do you even know if you want to be a good person? And what exactly is being good? Let’s take a few mundane examples. Speaking the truth, not hurting others, helping the poor, respecting elders, blah blah. Going by the well-established parameters set by our forefathers, [...]
He wakes up on his own. He doesn’t have a watch but they all wake up at the same time, 4.30 in the morning at the call of Muezzin. He washes his feet, hands and face with ice cold water, arranges his prayer mat neatly on the mud floor of his hut, and prays to [...]
The maniacal bus drivers never stopped the bus, even at the designated bus stops. They only slowed down the old, rickety and monstrous vehicles. One had to push people aside, make their way to the exit and then jump off before the driver slammed his foot down on the accelerator pedal. I guess I pushed [...]
“Rahul bhai? Can you call me back when you’re free. It’s really important”. “Alright”, I said to my younger brother. An hour passed by and I remembered that I had to ring him. I picked up my phone and punched in his number. He picked up at the very first ring. Without wasting any time, [...]
A – Ambassador,the car . The quintessential Indian automobile.
B – Bollywood.It is the national obsession .Nothing binds us better.
C – Cricket.When we are not watching movies,we are cricket-ing.
D – Dogs . Weve all been chased by one once in our life.Also the first abuse.
E – Eunuchs.The hijras are a peculiar phenomenon of the subcontinent.
F – Festivals.There [...]
We are worrying about the commonwealth games and here is the live examples of how things work in India when it comes to sports. Yesterday’s match between India and Sri-lanka, the final of the five match series at Ferozshah Kotla, Delhi had to be abandoned due to poor cricketing conditions. The pitch failed miserably to [...]
After Going through the article written by Amratya sen which was published at the ndtv site. I was reminded of my own post which was written 2 years back which i would like to re-post in order to share my insight on this topic.
“We have been brought up the way our Parents and Teachers wanted [...]
I have a strange problem these days
The power to hate with all my heart
Is ebbing by the day
I want to hate the English
{They ruled us for the two centuries}
But Shakesphere sidles up
To whom i owe so much
I want to hate the Muslims
But ghalib stands before me
Tell me,is it possible to stand up
To him?
I want to [...]