Jalianwalla Bagh Massacre
April 13, 2018I had storified these series of tweets 5 years ago. Now, with storify’s own future in peril, time to move it to my blog i believe we should declare the 13th of April to be the day of remembrance – a day…
Category: India
Hindi Film Music : All Encompassing Love
January 12, 2018It began as one of those really lovely twitter chats. A conversation about music. About love. About friendship. And, before i know it, i was looking at music that is about an all consuming/consuming love for Agents of Ishq There is lust….
World Politics : Choosing Who Lives (and therefore, who dies)
January 11, 2018In the film Sophie’s Choice, based on William Styron’s novel of the same name, Sophie has to decide, which of her children she will save. The period is the second world war, and the Nazi Officer tells to her to choose, which…
Should World Leaders be Banned from Twitter ?
January 3, 2018Years from now, a child will ask – what started the 3rd world war? and, grandmother would answer- an idiot on twitter North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will…
Kulbhushan Jadhav, Pakistan, and the Optics of Diplomacy
December 27, 2017The videos of Kulbhushan Jadhav’s family being harangued by the Pakistani news media were cringe worthy. This is the kind of stuff in bad shows, when you you want to show the media in bad light. Where paparazzi and TV journalists, shed…
Linguistic Diversity in India – Sourashtra Language
December 13, 2017The Linguistic Map of India- i could spend hours pouring over it, and making connections. I have suddenly re-discovered my fascination with maps, and how they are so brilliant at explaining most things. Yesterday i was giving a talk on Indian culture…
Reading Recommendations 1st December : Net Neutrality, Dating, Indian GDP, Reptiles that Fly
December 1, 2017Net Neutrality, Dating, Indian GDP, Reptiles that Fly – today’s recommended reads. Net Neutrality is on the agenda today. The BBC has a detailed report on how, if it is accepted by the Government, India’s net neutrality rules will be the…
Random thoughts on Aging, healthcare, and health insurance
November 22, 2017As I sit and wait with my mother, for her cataract operation, it strikes me, not for the first time, how unfriendly the whole system is for seniors. At present, about 16% of India is over 50, in the next 20 years, as…
Sexual harassment: When will Weinstein Effect impact India?
November 21, 2017i wrote this for ABP, earlier this month : Women talking about Sexual Harassment – It began as a whisper, then it became a murmur of voices, and then it became a shout that is still reverberating across the world. “I…
Reading Recommendations 19th November
November 19, 2017The NYT has a good piece on the Universal Basic Income Movement. I have been reading a fair bit on UBI, and when i read pieces like this, on Amazon’s Last Mile, it becomes all the more apparent why UBI will cease…