Category: Us people

  • We needed a revolution.

    Since May, we find that emotions are ridding high. The Nehruvian, elite still busy Modi bashing they are relentless and focused. The Sanghi’s wear their blinkers and focus only on their goals and agenda. We that are perched on the fence are yo-yo-ing. And pretending to deliver issue based judgement, yet when I look back…

  • A Hero Remembered.

    Lachit Borphukan of Ahom. While the nation divides it self’s into Nehruvians and Sanghi’s there are other heroes who have laid down their lives in the service of their mother land.  A few like Bhagat Singh or Azad from the cowbelt do get recognized when the Nehruvians and Sanghi’s are magnanimous. Among the unacknowledged heroes,…

  • An Institution called Jogappa

    “Jogapparinda taa” has been the demand of  every cook, home remedy brewer or anyone who wanted value for their money, since my Grandmother’s day. I remember Jogappa Shanbaug, a frail fair man clad in a dhotar and Bombay Ganji, would peer at his customer as if to ensure that the customer knows what he wants, and…

  • A Minister for Yoga,

    We now have an AYUSH ministry. It seems to draw a lot of flack. Asia Pacific called the minister in charge as the minister for Yoga.  Of course the “Intelligentsia” the post residents of urban India find that embarrassing whatever.  The excerpt from Asia-Pacific is as follows “The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed…

  • The World UN- Day

    “After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of the Jews could never happen again. Now the UN is a flourishing organization a honourable institution, the only thing is that it doesn’t do the thing they founded it for: prevention of mass-murder.”…

  • Kid stuff

    “baccha hai” is the excuse for all irresponsible acts in our culture. Yes baccha or kid could be irresponsible, sometimes we learn from there. When we were practising Navavidha bhakti for Ashada Ekadashi at Puttaparthi, there was this little girl, who was all of 6yrs. she was to perform atmanivedhana… this was a concept that…