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Category: Politically Incorrect

  • Democracy in practice.

    General election – series of articles is only to create things we conveniently forget before getting excited with exit polls and opinion polls.–Basic structure of constitution in practice.–Democracy. Indian democracy not bad at all, 60yrs 15 elections, more 700 million people exercising franchise. Booth capturing and vote tampering were the fall out. With the introduction…

  • Completing an unfinished agenda

    Election 2014 Completing an unfinished agenda Understanding the basic structure of constitution in practise.– Before we listen to the ranting of Arnab Goswami or bakbak dutt, read what the media is feeding us. There is so much more to excising a franchise than elevating the middle finger as proof performing a duty. The constitution the…

  • Rajkumar Jaag uta.

    Ha! Politics, noun, A strife of interests masquerading as contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage – says Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil’s Dictionary. How true, look at the great tamasha that has been going on over the bill. Modi, wave is on, he is being himself without actually bothering about…

  • Tale of the brothers– ramakatha

    Ramakatha. North Indian houses, believe that Ramayana should be read in the house, as it is a tale of brothers bonding but not Mahabharata. Ramayana is indeed a tale of brothers, Ravana–Kubera Ravana-Kumbhakarana Ravana- vibhishana Vali – sugriva Jatayu-Sampati Rama–Lakshmana Rama-Bharat. Somewhere in this annals poor shatrughna stays forgotten. The Ramayana of uttarkhand talks of…

  • Bengali Buzurg Vs Gujju Guy

    Amartya Kumar Sen Indian economist, who lives in the land of Uncle Sam, writes on poverty, socialism and Indian culture sponsored by American cheques. He has made contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justices, and economic theories of famines and indexes of the measurement of well-being of citizens of developing countries. The fly…

  • Old man time,

    I am the old man by the river, if you think I am someone’s grandfather, or the village elder, I could be, but more important, I am the keeper of a memory of people and communities, “stories have changed my dear boy,” I told the man in the grey suit, “there are no more battles…