Cues to the Drivers on October 4, 2023Well, it’s been long since I last wrote something. And honestly, I kind of know exactly why. It’s one of those instances where words fall short, even if you were allowed to utter them at all, in a very cossetted mayhem – for the land of promise has descended into an era of hopelessness retrofitted […]
The Genius on February 18, 2023Let me begin with a confession. As a child, I believed genius in its crudest form was the single most important ingredient to impact change. Twenty years through the messy strings of life and I have come to believe that I was wrong – that genius alone is not enough. Genius of those responsible to […]
British Museums: Post-Colonial “Chor-Bazaars” on March 3, 2022Although invaders voyaged from different parts of the world, for distinct self-serving reasons, there always remained one underlying similarity among their methods: taking away a community’s cultural icons. The British were no aberration. British rule was the archetype of what colonists used to do: exclusionary policies, virulent taxation, inducing famines and degenerating resources was the […]
Democracy — a colonial hangover on February 9, 2022Right after the Second Great War, though the British did leave this continent for good, they left a mess for the people of the newly founded nations to collect. Oftentimes, while trying to rationalise their colonial past, many of its fervent advocates claim that one of the greatest things that colonised countries inherited, which they […]