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  • 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,…

  • IFFI at my backyard.

    IFFI 2014 It is actually happening at our back yard.  . Anyway we did receive the passes for IFFI inaugural. I am not an IFFI person, the GALF is more my cup of tea. Still there was a kind of excitement, vibrancy and festivity out there. women dressed in the trendiest ware, The show was…

  • The walled Gods

    “Bai, me vikatgetle shaam” is a popular Marathi Bhajan, I always use this to express absurdity, at the end of the day how can one buy God? It has been one of my biggest grouses about Tirupathi, and following its example Dharmasthala,kollur, and now Udupi. — the , system the token for darshana, and now the paid darshana.…

  • 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…

  • Public spaces

     A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness, bad manners, and lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, this is more significant than a riot happening. If we were go to by these symptoms we are dying. The way 12+ something’s, call them adolescents…  the language they use…