He sat at the bus stand right outside the station, watching the people coming out of the large gate. In and out, not giving him a second glance, as he sat, adjusting his backpack on his shoulders every now and then. Just another face in the crowd. It had been almost a decade since he…
Tag: Kashmir
Welcome To New India…….
Welcome to #NewIndia…… Where 803 rapes, 729 murders take place in two months without any guilt but the people are more interested in when the Ram Mandir will be built. Where the farmers are committing suicide with no one listening to their whines. And the people are more interested in which language, they should have…
So You Want Me To Protest Against the Amarnath Terrorist Attacks …. but….
Okay !!! Okay !!! I Give Up !! Succumbing to the huge pressure from the “right” sides of the fence, I have decided to protest with a #NotInMyName banner against the dastardly Terrorist attacks on the Amarnath Pilgrims. But I am slightly confused here. I am not sure whom I have to protest against. Should…
Is the beat of the Jingoistic Drums drowning the sounds of everything else around us?
The last few weeks have been nothing but the beating of jingoistic drums, with entire India dancing to its tune. So much so that we have stopped thinking about anything else, but that. It is pretty obvious that when the cards of “War Against Poverty”, “War against Illiteracy”, “War against Black Money” and “War…
JNU Strike …. A Mismanaged Fiasco? Or a Deliberate Strategy?
It was 1995. I was a young student back then in Pune University. The University ammended the ATKT rule reducing the number of papers one could carry forward to the next year. We called for a strike. My first strike and I took a very active part in it. The strike…
The Desi Cracked Pot 