A 24- year- old Indian student was shot dead near the Boston University in USA on April 19. He was a grad student from Odisha, nearing completion of his degree at the University’s School of Management. As the news went ...Read More
It was the Anna phenomenon that threw the Indian middle class into the limelight. For the first time since 1947, a swathe of humanity lifted itself up and marched into the Ramlila grounds and the gaze of the waiting TV ...Read More
When mind triumphs over matter, you become Zohra Sehgal. How else do you explain that someone born in 1912 is still relevant to us? Still loved, adored and still smiling at life with a wink and a saucy grin after ...Read More
Watching Aamir Khan go down with a makeshift stage where he was standing to convey his intimacy with people unlike him was faintly ironical. More about that later but is it incidental that everytime he has a ...Read More
A new country. New faces. New culture. And endless stretch of empty time that was a wishful thought until a few months back is now a reality. Often I tried to find a sense of belonging in all these. Compared ...Read More
Memory is nothing but
a compound
a distillation
an essence
a coming together
seeping together
staying together
of everything
that the eyes drank
the skin tasted
the breath sang
the soul heard and never
forgot
and that is why
when breeze mixes with rain
you suddenly smell pine needles
and distant snow
and damp roses
and drops of ...Read More
Emotions sometimes seem so unnecessary. The thoughts, the fears, the assumptions, the pre-suppositions, the questions which play with our thought processes and create an unnecessary noise, distract silence and keep our minds constantly busy. Not to forget the need for ‘dramatisation’ that a normal ...Read More
It was a rainy day. I was waiting for my first lecture to begin in the classes I had joined for my entrance exam. In the nervousness of the first day, I realized I had reached too early and was ...Read More
The two convicts in the Pune BPO employee rape-cum-murder case, Purshottam Borate and Pradip Komokate, were sentenced to death, sometime back. News of sexual violence against women sends me into an overdrive.I am approaching 50 but am as angry, as touchy ...Read More
I feel woolly in the head, often. It’s a light, airy feeling, of a benevolent happy detachment, if pushed to analyse. Those are silent, reflective moments I break free in, to float away from the immediate so I can observe ...Read More
Was it yesterday that I beamed at the fact that I had turned 18? I remember standing in one of the corridors of Seshadripuram College huddled with my friends, celebrating a milestone that added an extra zing to the already ...Read More
“So, how are you going to travel to Mumbai? Train?” asked my grandmother when I called to tell her that I am travelling to the city of dreams for the first time on work. I said, “Ajji, they’re sending me by ...Read More
