I am aware India is not Russia. For two obvious reasons: a) It is hot as hell here. Always. Even the winters are not winters. Infact if a Russian comes to Jammu and Kashmir during the winter, his Facebook album will be titled:”Summer vacation in India” b) We are not an explicit dictatorship regime. We are still naive in our belief in ... Read More »
*Co-authored by Roktim Rajpal, Student (Asian College of Journalism) India, a country where terrorism, corruption and economy usually dominate headlines, has seen a spate of sexual offences against women. The last few years have been nightmares for women. But December 16, 2012, was a turning point. The Delhi gang rape not only served as a wake-up call for the police ... Read More »
To, The Sports Minister, New Delhi. Subject: Hockey out, Cricket In. Respected Sir, What is Hockey? Who is Dhyan Chand? I did not know the answer to these questions when I was 9 years old. But I did know who was Sachin Tendulkar and I would dance after every cricket match that India won. I wasn’t alone. There were millions ... Read More »
Happiness is quite a relative term isn’t it? For example, ice cream on Sunday makes me super happy, and some people on the other hand might detest it altogether. Well, I attended the NH7 music festival in Pune recently, and left with a bunch of happy memories. They call it the happy festival; I definitely found my moments of happiness. ... Read More »
I was 12 years old at the time. India was facing Pakistan in an irrelevant Group Stage game of the Cricket World Cup (that’s not true, matches with Pakistan are never really irrelevant). Like most Indian kids from the 1990s, I was a cricket fanatic – at least then. Pakistan had batted first and amassed a challenging score of 273 ... Read More »
Hindi Cinema (Bollywood) is going to declare 2013 as a record breaking year with phenomenal box office collections. But I don’t need to tell you that. You can make that inference from the front page of Bombay Times, every time a movie has released and grossed 100 crores or more and hijacked the advertorial paper or even the primary news ... Read More »
What is a Mob to a King? (Rahul Gandhi) What is a King to a God? (Narendra Modi) What is a God to a Non-Believer? (Me) The above lyrics of the song No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean seem apt to describe the present situation of the nation. The hoopla and hype over this ... Read More »
A modern-day parody unfolds in my house every morning. It is believed that every forest has, but one king; it seems mine has two – not my dad or my mom, but the two maids that run my house and operate for a period of 3 hours combined. Utter pandemonium breaks loose every morning beginning from 9 AM. I’m still ... Read More »
Not all those who wander are lost – J.R. Tolkien Not one truer thing was ever said by Mr Tolkien in spite of all the fantastic work he’s done throughout his years of service to English literature. One of my favorite things to do as a traveler is to set off on impulsive, spontaneous, expansive and erratic road trips. Be ... Read More »
I’m an Indian. It is the 15th of August, 2013. My nation is officially 67 years old today as more than 1.2 billion people in the country celebrate independence and freedom. An odd phenomenon that I’ve noticed in this country (one that I assume must be prevalent in others too) is the way people generally feel overtly patriotic, responsible and experience a ... Read More »
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