Reflections
15. The Gandhian Hitler
This happened 25 years ago, at a boy’s hostel in Chandigarh’s Punjab University campus. Devinder Bhardwaj, a student of Gandhian studies, and his political science hostel mate Sanjeev Bragt...
14. La Marioneta, a Farewell Poem
It so happened that noted filmmaker Mrinal Sen received a poem from Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was seriously ill those days in 1998 (He died on 17 April 2014, much later).&...
13. Who Could Be Called a Happy Being
Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) refused to marry Paris Singer, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine company because she was not sure she could tolerate a settled life. Although she bore three child...
12. Why did Israel want to kill journalists?
On Sunday, August 10, 2025, Israel deliberately attacked a media tent the journalists were working out of, at the gates of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in seconds...
11. A World That is Almost Surreal
“A busy man is never wise and a wise man is never busy,” said the Chinese linguist, novelist, and philosopher Lin Yutang (1895 – 1976). He came into the limelight when his unusual book My C...
10. Sleep is God. Go Worship
Ernest Hemingway said, “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” I can’t say exactly the same about myself but I agree with the first part - I too lov...
9. The Reason of Your Poverty
Republic of South Sudan or the South Sudan is a small country in East Africa. Its capital is Juba, which happens to be its largest city. South Sudan became an independent state in 2011 becoming the 54...
8. The Will
Today I am going to share a true, not a story, but the truth. Something that didn’t get any media coverage as the mainstream media has no space for such silly news items. This I am not saying, they us...
7. Banta Cooks Vegetarian Chicken
Long back a friend from Canada, who had several trucks and all his drivers were Indian, in a lighter note, shared a story. One of his truck drivers Banta Singh was his faourite since he always followe...
6. Dream of a Life of Equality
Taslima Nasrin, the Bangladeshi feminist writer has not returned home. She is still in self-exile since she fled the country in 1994 following with multiple fatwas on her head after her controversial...
5. Living in The Moment
Science and humanities are poles apart, well, that’s what we’re told the day we’re supposed to select our higher education stream. But it is not always right. A few years back the writ...
4. Love Often Returns in Another Way
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll. She and Ka...