Is it just me or do other people also feel that Christmas tends to bring out the child in most of us? Palpable excitement mounts as days are counted off, approaching the Big Day. Our friends, C and J’s home becomes a kids’ delight as J brings out all the decorations, musical toys and figurines …
Christmas from another age
In the 1960s my family lived in a small town, Naya Nangal (“new” Nangal). It was contiguous to the older and more established Bhakra Nangal town, which took its name and identity from Bhakra Dam, the first hydro-electric power generation plant in India. The dam was conceived in pre-partition India but its construction started in …
A glass half full
“By defining ourselves against something, we are in fact defining ourselves by it. …We will see anger only if we know it.” I recently read these lines in a book (Radical) and recalled other, similar narratives. One summer evening my good friend and mentor, the late Prof. Singh and I were enjoying a cup of …
