ANOU’S BLOG
all about symbols
We have just finished the shradhs or days that have been allotted to our departed souls. Every faith has such days, for some it is a single day for India it is two weeks.To me these days mean much more than the sated gesture of feeding the poor. It is a time for...
a burning issue
The airing of video images of AIIMS student's burning Dr Ambedkar's books sent a chill down my spine. Images of a doom-laden future flashed by my mind.The reservation issue is going out of hand and unless it is addressed by non-political citizens our land may become...
about children but not for children
The de-recognition and thereby shutting of over 1000 schools in karnataka as they did not comply to a law passed many years back brings to fore once again the reality that education and the welfare and rights of children ranks very low on the political agenda of our...
feeding off kids..
It is appalling how adults use kids. Before little Utpal went to school a posse of family and relatives took advantage of all the goodies provided.It is but obvious that one could not help him at home without including the others, directly or indirectly. A ceiling fan...
words ad nauseum
When I look at little Komal who can barely see or hear, I wonder how long it will take her to learn the value of words.I am sick and tired of words: words of praise, words of anger, words that hurt, words that hang without meaning, words that vanish into thin air as...
the price of democracy
yesterday two children died in the cross fire the police resorted to, to quell angry mobs. The mobs were exercising their democratic right to dissent against what has become a Kafkaesque cat and mouse game between the authorities, the courts and the people of...
finger prints of the dead
I could not resist writing about an experience I had today when I took myself off to the District Courts to register my will.After being mobbed by all the notary and lawyers who sit at little tables with antediluvian typewriters in a neat row, like a bunch of crows...
picche se… (from the back) an elusive answer to real questions
I have often wondered what is it that makes pwhy such a menace to local powers that be. Why is it that we get dragged to the labour court, accused of nefarious activities, ranging from pandering to stealing. Why is it that each time we solve a problem and start...
will this one be the good one!
deepak came visiting to show off his two brand new teeth! he even smiled and played with us. This brave little fellow has kept his side of the deal: he survived a code blue and even though his broken heart stopped beating, he willed to beat again; he patiently waited...
distance makes the heart grow fonder
Distance makes the heart grow fonder says the jaded quotation. Most of us have at one time or the other used it.Six long years trying to keep project why alive my way, has given a new connotation to these very words. We could also use Mark Twain's Familiarity breeds...
Children.. a valuable resource
JFK said: "Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future”. Wonder what he would have felt about their situation in India..last week three blasts rocked Malegaon, most of the victims were children, many beggars who had come on this...
Kim.. the ambassador of our dreams.
When Kim called a few week back to say he wanted to feature project why in his The Strait Times, I was surprised wondering what I had done to receive such an honour. I must confess that in the days preceding his arrival, I spent many hours wondering whether we would...