4 days agoWhy must we celebrate our 75th year of independence from foreign rulers?We are now celebrating seventy-five years of independence. Indian civilization is more than five thousand years old. What are seventy-five years in comparison? The last seventy-five years are just a blink when you change your perspective. There have been invasions, famine, slavery, political subjugation, genocide (though the term is of…Independence Day6 min read
Jul 16Kashmir woes — its culture, its genesis, its causes — a syncretic pastI walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don’t know where it goes But it’s home to me, and I walk alone I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Where the city sleeps And I’m the only one, and I walk…Kashmir10 min read
Jul 10Kashmir woes — its culture, its genesis, its causes — a trial by ordealIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was…Kashmir8 min read
Jun 19Father’s DayA tribute to the men in my life who made me what I am today The greatest tribute a boy can give to his father is to say, ‘When I grow up, I want to be just like my dad. Today is Father’s Day. While growing up, I do not…Fathers Day4 min read
Apr 30How we connect with the web-based game WordleMuch ink has flowed since New York Times bought the puzzle Wordle from its creator, the Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle in January 2022. It is now one of the most popular web-based word games. The game’s rapid rise to popularity is, to say the least, phenomenal. On November 1…Relationships6 min read
Apr 23Does it matter who is the poet, as long as it touches your heart?I am at that stage of a man’s life when he feels the time is running out. There is nothing much to look forward to, nothing more to achieve in life. When the man realizes the futility of it all and just wishes to be left alone. …Poem3 min read
Jan 1Why human surrogacy is more a moral issue than a legal issueAs our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. Arthur C Clarke Propagation is the nature of all living organisms. Starting from the microscopic unicellular organisms, to us humans, none are beyond the urge to…Society7 min read
Dec 19, 2021Two deaths and a divided society — when your silence don’t speakThere comes a time when the silence is more eloquent than thousand words. When the silence weighs heavily like a huge boulder on the consciousness of those on the receiving end. But this is not one of those occasions. Now is the time to speak out loud and clear, to…Social Media5 min read
Nov 11, 202110 Wonderful Fictions I Read During My Growing Up YearsRecently, one of my childhood friends shared a link to a nice article 1. The article celebrated the 50th year of publishing of Frederick Forsyth’s, The Day of the Jackal. This classic spy thriller was published 50 years ago in 1971. The article made me nostalgic. It made me go…Fiction14 min read
Nov 9, 2021How Oedipus and Yayati syndrome help us understand Western and Indian cultureWe may all know the Greek mythological story of Oedipus. The story originates from the folk traditions of Albania. Finland, Cyprus, and Greece. The western culture evolved around this region over the past few millennia and influenced most of the present western thought. Like all folk and mythological stories, there…Mythology6 min read
