Learning and Unlearning of Dr.Jekyll and Madam Hyde.
Noololyako chenni, noololyako the base voice of the singer was crooning. Asking his glamorous lady love, why doesn’t she spin? “ratiyillelo jaana ”she replies, that she needs a spinners wheel...the dialogue goes on in the nasal twang of the folk singers. Once upon a time these singers would never enter Durbar-e-khaas. But the song is …
World toilet day The UN has declared Nov.19th as the world Toilet day. We have lived and grown up with toilets, of course during our younger days when we travelled we never used public toilets since we were worried about hygiene with the advent of pay toilets those are taken care off too. The impact …
The last few months have been extremely stressful to me. And support came from a much unexpected quarter. My normally irritating younger brother. Now that I’m better I’m amazed at the sensitivity and concern he showed. Having grown up in a joint family it was 8 of us growing together of whom four of us …
Gypsies somehow always captured my fancy maybe from the gypsy dances we learnt at school, with bright colourful skirts and scarves. Not to mention the reference to gypsies by English storytellers like Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie. Then one day I came across this day dedicated to the gypsies, The world Gypsy day. I …
International day of the unborn child. “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other …
Covid-19 has exposed an underfunded overworked Indian Public Health services and an overpriced almost exploitative private healthcare sector. it is time to find regulations and increase the healthcare budget from the current 1.5%
Jumping to the defense of science.
This narrative is shared in honour of Virginia Woolf who was born on Jan.25th 1882. and A room of one's own is a famous essay by her.
