Category: Politically Incorrect
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Erased But Unfazed
In Southern India, remarkable women rewrote history but were overlooked. Velu Nachiyar bravely fought the British in 1780, Vani Vilas Sannidhana championed education and health in Mysore, Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy broke barriers in medicine and social reform, and Suraiyya Tyabji designed the Indian national flag. Their stories deserve recognition and a place in history.
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Celebrating the Domestic Martyrs
Who needs a border war when we are killing our own at Home? This independence day should have been dedicated to the domestic Martyrs.
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Day 29 A Kid’s Concern.
A kid put forth her concern in a TEDex talk. She was talking about how lost childhood, wars, school fees and lack of water. She has a valid point it might be the time to relook.
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Musing over the Republic of Musa Acuminata
Sometime back Tomichan had enquired about banana republic. I think he wanted to know if banana republic’s grew banana’s the ideal answer to this, is if ‘banana nahi hai, toh banana grow karne ke liye garden banana hai” But why banana? I would want to be on a ‘go banana diet” since that movie ‘Go…
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Are We or Are We not a Democracy.
September 15th is an interesting day, with Free Money day, and the International day of democracy. Despite it being a Sunday, I am parked at 91 springboard of course with my friends, mulling over brewed coffee. What on earth is actually democracy. Of course my friends Merriam-Webster do refer to it as the govt. Of…
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Just Deserts.
Yesterday was world awareness to stop desertification and drought day. I do not want to lose our focus by working on the world statistics. As far as India is concerned we are at 30% of the country being threatened by droughts. The threat of the drought has moved southwards. There has been a 90% increase…
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