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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Month: March 2012
The Inward Gaze
For the last few months, I have turned away from news on the television as well as the morning papers every single day. I had decided to see what my life would be like if I were to know nothing about what is happening around me. Obviously I had no choice but to know what was going […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Daughters..
In a way, it was easier when you were chubby babies. Your needs were of the moment, simple to satisfy. An ice cream cone was all it took to turn the blue moments sunny. But I knew it even as you licked at the cone that these straightforward days would not last. A day would […]
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 […]
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 […]
Agent Vinod- The New Gunmaster-G9
“Aajkal kisi ko wo toktaa nahin, chaahe kuchh bhi kijiye roktaa nahin ho rahi hai loot maar phat rahe hain bam aasmaan pe hai Khudaa aur zameen pe ham aajkal wo is taraf dekhtaa hai kam” (God no longer chides anyone No matter what we do..He just watches on.. all the mayhem..all the bomb blasts.. […]
Many Pages, Many Lives
There are many things that could draw you to a book, but fewer things that keeps you hooked on to it. I’ve jotted down a few reasons why I believe books are great. If you have more to add, leave a comment. One moment you’re in an open jeep slowly following a tiger, and the […]
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 […]
Arundhati Nag: Lit From Within
Note: I have had the privilege to interview theatre personality and actor Arundhati Nag many times over a decade or more and this piece recalls many conversations about her life and work. You saw her award winning turn in Pa recently and even if she comes for a few seconds in an advertisement, you know, […]