Category: Us people

  • EMI that Impacts Environment

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB0URC1bOkk sometimes we tend to adapt things that we have been brainwashed into believing without realizing the impact it has on health, and environment. Dr.Kumkum Roy has been taking guest lectures at the Goa University and I was attending it, unfortunately I had to use the Ladies room, and the proof that as a nation…

  • Cook Black Money

    Cook Black Money

    In 2013 there were 14 crore LPG consumers. That is about 60% of the population. Jan 2016 subsidy for taxpayers who earn over 10 lakh annually will not receive subsidy.  Since most studies are Delhi-centric or at the maximum Cow belt centric it is believed that the annual saving from Delhi alone would be 1,167…

  • The Silent Achievers 2015

    This was one of those evening events that I attended because my mother wanted me to. The Manipal Mahila Samaj meeting. Room full of bustling women, noisy kids and garish clothes. Then the secretary came up to read the activity report. There was an interesting story. About a woman called Sitamma, who went about replanting…

  • Bits of Paper

    Bits of Paper

    I am walking into Satkar Residency Manipal to catch up with my classmates who I have not met for 28yrs. Out comes a man, chucks a wrapper, he walks few steps, pulls out a pack of cigarettes, sticks one into his mouth and chucks the empty packet, and he also stamps out it for a…

  • Rights of a Victim

    Rights of a Victim #knowYourRights Should sexual abuse be reported? I shall not give three reasons why they should because the reasons why they need not are also there. Amnesty claims only 1 in 100 sexual abuses get reported in India… well the statistics worldwide is not much different. so stop projecting the issue as…

  • city lights

    city lights

    Our stories dictate the city that we like the most. I met a bureaucrat last month and she has lived in Delhi for approximately 45yrs of her 60yrs of life and somewhere is so comfortable with city that she is looking at continuing to live in Delhi even after her retirement. Actually I am trying…