Just when all is said and done, The telling begins again. Infinity is deep inscribed In the human heart and brain. …
Seventy years into our republican existence, this act rather rubbishes the political-Hindutva assertion that a cohesive culture inspires India’s national identity
It is tragic that an abiding fact that the soil of the country is inextricably made up of Semitic Indians amounts to so little in the minds of those who blare their proprietorship of India as a civilisation
Dear Winston, Your cigar never left Your mouth, So you lived on Past ninety. In fact, it is much in doubt Whether…
John Lewis, you looked trouble In the eye, and from its womb Forged good trouble. From the march on Washington Till sixty…
When the Covid pestilence shall pass, Like Nature’s instructive visitation, I shall to the brim fill my glass, And celebrate the humbling…
The CBSE’s syllabus diktat seems to announce a clampdown on learning that may raise questions of macro-historical distress and discrimination that continue to plague the republic
Remember when we understood ‘sentiment’ As a human construct? Now, ‘sentiment’ defines the mood-swings Of the stock and share market. When…
Poor fig is just a lowly fruit, But fig leaves earn reward; They hid our shame in Paradise, And now they hide…
If God is Light, as the good book says, And Satan the Prince of Darkness be, Then is the seed of racism…
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