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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is arguably the most crucial moment in the history of Pakistan . It is fighting for its soul and identity . It is at war with itself . The old timers in South Block are concerned with the consequences of having an extremist Pakistan as neighbor . There concerns are well justified but there’s [...]
What do you do, when you’re the Department of Posts in India? Your profits are slipping, trust in your service is zero and the only people who use your services are the students who are forced to use the Speed Post to submit their application forms for various examinations. The competition postcards that you introduced [...]
After reading Chetan Bhagat and Khushwant Singh, my opinion of Indian authors was something in the range of ‘pathetic imitators’. They suck. They are so bad at it that they shower misery upon book-lovers! Every page is a torture full of illogical bullshit which makes you wince as you turn another page. Khushwant Singh thinks [...]
The Mahabharat and The Ramayan are India’s two greatest epics. Both are celebrated as the victory of good over evil. The good versus evil story is as old as civilization itself. But, what sets these two epics apart is the absence of absolute and outright evil figures. In both these epics, the antagonists suffer from [...]
This is the real life story of a man who dared to believe until he realized he had ‘friends’ -
You see a girl in college and there’s instant infatuation. You can’t explain why you like her but you do. The next thing you do is you try to know more about her through your friends. [...]
Duniya mein dukh aur bhi hai, mohabat ki ilawa
Daaman thamke baithe` hain phir bhi usi ka.
Chalo phir se muskurayein
Chalo! phir se dil lagayein
Unginat lamhon ki yaad hai
Kuch pal ke liye udaas hai.
Haal-e-dil zubaan pe le aaye
Wafa se bewafa ho gaye.
Waqt hua unke aane ka
Aarzoo hai, unke liye
Chalo phir se muskurayein
Chalo! phir se dil lagayein.
- Nabeel