A 1000 Steps Against Malnutrition?

A 1000 Steps Against Malnutrition?

The Prime Minister  Manmohan Singh has recognized the harsh reality of malnutrition in India by saying “India‘s “unacceptably high” levels of child malnutrition are a “national shame”. Our State women and child welfare minister  Varsha Gaikwad  in the Assembly’s winter session  last year in Nagpur  admitted on the floor of the house that only 68 children were dying […]

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Lost…

Lost…

I am walking on the rain soaked earth, drizzling clouds  falling upon me, all I feel, are your last words digging through, My feet walking me into the moisture laden air, While the heart is on its way into the past , losing itself to the memory of joy, Every step in  the sparkle of […]

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Poppies On The Wall..

Poppies On The Wall..

Every morning, Nanaji would pull a chair under the old mango tree and with the sun warming his knees; he would wait for a steaming cup of black tea and the Dainik Jagaran to be delivered to him. Scooby, the big black part Doberman (with some mongrel genes that gave him a long bushy tail) would drool silently, waiting […]

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The Power Of One

The Power Of One

What can one person do?” This is the theme song of India, circa 2011. It is there in our airwaves, living, breathing and engulfing the citizenry in a convenient cloak of invisibility and irresponsibility. The system is bad. The British left behind a servile mess. Corruption is a given. What can one person do? And […]

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Memories Of Rain

Memories Of Rain

It is a girl. She is walking down an uneven path on the barren hillside, placing her feet carefully on the loose stones. Her thin brown fingers are curled around some ferns with white spore smeared undersides that she uses to stamp Christmas tree shapes on her skin. She places a leaf at the back of the hand clasping […]

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Curtain Raiser: Turntable Productions

Curtain Raiser: Turntable Productions

Note: This is a press release. Turntable Productions is an initiative by young students Shoury Gupta, Prateek Handa and Medha Bankhwal to bring commercial worth to theatre as a performing art and incorporate it as a form of entertainment, interaction, a professional career option and learning in the schedules of Delhi residents . Turntable Productions […]

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Being..

Being..

You have a fancy job. You have cool friends. You have a family that visits occasionally and you therefore feel you are in touch with them. You also have a vehicle to get around the city, you have a pay cheque that pays for unnecessary expenses like ready-made ginger-garlic paste, an extra skillet, more than two […]

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