Commentary

  • In India the rule of law often breaks down at the throw of the dice. The frequency of which is appalling, and outright irrational. We have a novel way at protesting at the tip of the hat, namely taking recourse to Bandhs, Dharnas and now more fashionably undertaking a Fast. At any given day in

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  • ON BOOKS AND READING.

    I have always likes reading. Books have been my friends during my most private time- Alone. even now i have been spending a lot of time with them. Not that I don’t like people, it just happens that I find books more interesting than most people I encounter. However, the few interesting ones I meet

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  • It had been a while since I planned to go on the trek to sandakphu. The monotonous schedule and the banality of following it always held me back from executing the plan. Then one fine evening, in the busiest month of my calendar, my friends spontaneously made a plan for the trek and extended an

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  • I always thought that the question of, whether social change must precede political change in India had been suitable answered by the event of Indian Independence in 1947.This event I though was a classic case where political change preceded social change, thereby giving us Indians an opportunity to facilitate social change. Apparently this event seems

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  • Why Politics?

    What makes a democracy possible? And, thereafter what makes it work? It’s the people. Ordinary citizens of a nation, people like you and me. It requires no distinction of religion, caste, class between the rich and the poor or the strong and the weak. The only thing it requires is a simple notion of being

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