Congratulations to the people of Pakistan and India on the occasion of their Independence-day celebrations; August 14 for Pakistan and August 15 for India. It was in August 1947 that a truncated India attained freedom, after some 200 years of British rule. The partition of India and Pakistan resulted in the death of nearly two …
Toppling statues
In 1859, Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities opened with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was …
Fair and Lovely
An Indian mystic, Osho opined that discrimination starts the moment a child is born. “Boy or a girl?”, “Dark or Fair?” are typically the very first queries new parents field. We too, have experienced this first as parents and later, as grandparents. As people of Indian origin, this bias towards a fair complexion is engrained …
Motherhood
The popular TV series Westworld had an episode in which a character mouths this philosophical observation, “You live for as long as someone remembers you”. There are many people who came into my life and having lived their lives, moved on. Some of them still live on … they come alive instantly when I think …
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