Tag: citizen responsibility

  • Whose’s funeral is it anyway?

    My husband I decided to watch the evening news. The headline screamed,”Arushi murder parents convicted.” The glowing teenager’s snap popped up. Then there was Bacchi Kakaria, some other journalists all dissecting the issues. They are absolutely sure that the culprits are the parents despite of acknowledging that the evidence is circumstantial. Whatever be, if the…

  • Ah pleid guilty.

    We The People Rapes galore Violence Road pops. It I was to deal with this like an epidemic I would look at the etiology, actually the bad news is it is genetic. Dr.Anasari from the pediatric forensic cell of Californian jail will say so with all the research document, but one does not really need…

  • so you want to run away.

    When I saw the bloggers write i want to leave india, it kind of struck somewhere. This what we have created, a set of youngsters who want to flee. Shame on us as parents. Yes what happened in delhi was bad. But candle light march’s media uproar is not going to solve issues. What do…

  • the wait list.

    The train speeds through Kanakavalli to chiplun it stops for a crossing , a battalion of office goers barge in, they sit on you in the berth and wherever they can find a spot to park their little fingers. Never mind you are in a reserved compartment. Never mind these are supposed to be educated…

  • From Pune

    Originally posted on Amit Paranjape's Blog: 12 July 1961 – this fateful day will remain forever etched in Pune’s history. A day that changed the history and geography of this great city. Call it a bad coincidence – but two events that happened almost exactly 200 years apart have played a critical role in Pune’s…

  • From Pune

    Originally posted on recipes : Thalipeet is a northern Karnataka, Maharashtra breakfast dish. This works somewhere along the lines of sandwiches, and chaats where the cook can go berserk with imagination. Ingredients: ½ kg.        Raagi flour(millet) 2              onions 4-5           green chillies finely chopped. 1-2 tbsp    coconut scraping. 1 fist full of bay leaves…