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  • chalo-vote karo

    India votes 2014, And how would I inspire and mobilize the youth to vote in the 2014 election. I remember Michael Fernandes the father of George Fernandes; he was a 6ft. plus man who was tortured during the emergency that he was on wheel chair. In that condition he went from school to school, particularly…

  • Us People.

    I have been listening to Arvind Kejriwal’s eloquent presentation at the house. He runs the same Roman Horse track albeit in a modern automobile. But it is still us and them…. It is the “aam aadmi’s victory.” He hollered. ”we challenged to come to the parliament and get things done our way.” This Mr.Kejriwal as…

  • The mango flavour.

    It was the alumni weekend at manipal I met a friend who had done her engineering from KREC and currently resides abroad. She was appreciating how focused her class fellows had become. She was impressed that they were planning their kid’s studies undergraduate at that abroad, albeit with one person it was Ireland. No offense…

  • Lif-tick lore

    We were in class three, the parents day, our class was to perform the folk dance called Koravanji. The checked cotton sari’s collected beads chains and ear hoops, colourful flowers, bells on the feet. Mothers had diligently packed the list the teachers gave and we went to school “half day” on reaching the school in…

  • 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…

  • Kaadige kathai

    Or may be I should say Racoon Eyes 🙂 Ragini kaki was the most vibrant of all my aunt’s so was Mala Aunty. Somehow Mala Aunty always preferred the use of “Uncle” and “Aunty” over Kaki and mama as we normally called our maternal uncles and aunt. Ragini Kaki always preferred “snow” over”lactocalamine”. Every time…

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