“23 February, 1967, polling day was a turning point in the political history of India, the Communists are coming.” Said, the personal assistant to the outgoing congress chief minister Prafulla Chandra Sen (S.Chakrabarty, 1978, p.194). Little...

The other day, while watching yet another movie on POVERTY, the one thing we don’t want to see, yet cannot ignore, an image came across my mind. The image is of a man, from an obscure village of a non-descript district in Chattisgarh. The Image is...

“I think you will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the...

OK. An honest confession before i start this one, i had actually planned to name this one Mike and Murli...on the names of two varied guys in my class...who come from equally varied places...transcending all international borders from New Jersey to...

it was about 3′o clock in da afternoon and i was gettign restless of the july sky, which looked far from pouring rains over my campus, and so i went to take a shower in one of the many unaccounted for and hence unkept bathrooms just next to my...

‘Daddy Daddy, do you know who is India’s most popular female freedom fighter?’ ‘Rani Laxmibai’ ‘NO Daddy....its Mayawati....the great freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh.’ Don’t be shocked if you come...

YOUNG India has suddenly become ANGRY India, what with the ever increasing incidents of mob violence or mobocracy, to put it in a better way, which doesnt seem to take a break at all. the impatient indians seem to have found a new tool to let their...

” truth doesnt always coincide with fact “, this famous saying by great american author mark twain could never be better interpreted but today. recently while watching the truth behind the gujrat riots of 2002 being revealed on tv by a news...

The recently held power dinner in the honour of hillary clinton at the New York sheraton hotel might be a regular affair for the staff of the hotel, but for the 1.6 billion strong indian popualtion it was a moment of pride when the wife of ex president...

i never imagined i would start off my blog with an article on hatty(read cappy) himesh, but hten the truth is inevitable and sop is himesh. love him or hate him, but you simply cant ignore him(esh). with his latest movie AAP KA SUROOR - The movie - The...