Footloose
For the first twenty-five years, writing was an activity that helped me to clear exams. In the next thirty five years it was an activity that let me keep my job helped pay the bills. For the next five or ten or twenty or sixty years, I am going to write for fun and intend to have lots of it. That I have you reading this pursuit of fun is pure bliss.
Footloose
Spectre of a Sceptre
Here was a ruler who, despite enjoying the support of the masses and the attendant power, was still seeking the legitimacy of his throne from divine powers. Future researchers may investigate the compulsions and motivations for this course of action but for now, as they say—the more things change, the more they remain the same.
BooMillennial Dialogues
This is a record of a series of conversations between a Boomer father and his Millennial son over a period of thirty years.
Boomers: the generation born roughly between 1946 and 1965
Millennials: the generation born roughly between 1980 and 2020
Abide with me
The Gandhi statue was under repair at the time of my visit. The scaffolding around the statue made it surrealistic—as if the Mahatma would come to life and break open the fetters and walk away from the pedestal.
The Mobile Camera : A Modern-day Madame Defarge
A period of 250 years or a quarter of millennium separates the two incidents; but the more the things change, the more they remain the same—just the actors and the stages change. Do we need another Madame Defarge and the attendant judicial system to give justice to the dead farmers? The thought is mind-numbingly scary.
Lord Jagannath Strikes Back
The word juggernaut (derived from Jagannath) was taken to Europe by some missionaries in the 14th century. The story of an enormous carriage carrying a
The Migrant Worker Family
Santhal Family, made by Ramkinkar Baij in 1938 depicts a father with a child carried in a basket, a mother with another child on her left flank, and a dog from a Santhal family carrying their scant possessions and going in search of a new life—uncannily similar to the images of migrant worker families moving back from cities to their villages on foot.