India and Pakistan have recently celebrated their respective independence anniversaries. Self-declared pundits took it upon themselves, again, to re-examine the context and outcome of the Partition in 1947. In Northern areas of either country nearly every family is able to relate personal tragedies from this period. “It was”, as Dickens had written much earlier, “…the …
"Independent" minds
The legendary philosopher-poet Mirza Ghalib was disheartened by the sad plight of his beloved “Dilli” (Delhi) as it slowly disintegrated during the last days of the Mughal empire, expedited by the ascendant power of the East India Company. His verse and letters to friends from this period reflect his angst and pain arising from the cavalier …
Have you ever seen the rain?
A light drizzle started just as I stepped out of the car and started walking to the GO train station yesterday. As I settled in and switched on my iPod, purely by chance the first track that shuffled up on my iPod was a composition in raga Megh by the legendary Ustads Nazakat Ali and Salamat …
A timeless Treehouse
Summertime was special for us kids because friends and family would come visiting after the school term ended in June. I looked forward especially to the arrival of my “cool" cousins from Delhi. (Incidentally, "cool" was an expression used in the 1960s solely in the context of temperature related matters!) While it was hot, …
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