Elections in neighbourhood, migraine at doorstep! Part II on May 24, 2019Against the required five grade class, 3700 were PhDs let alone masters and bachelors. Author Kapil Komireddi sees Modi rule devastating for the India “we have more than a glimpse of the “New India” he has spawned. It is a reflection of its progenitor: culturally arid, intellectually vacant, emotionally bruised, vain, bitter, boastful, permanently aggrieved […]
Elections in neighbourhood, migraine at doorstep! – Part I on May 22, 2019Indian economy under Modi is as unadministered like Ganga River under both, Modi and of the ten years of Manmohan Singh. National economy and the most sacred river required revamping, sustainability and perspective planning to run them with impactful smoothness. Today both are in dismal form, worse than five years ago. In December 2018, Bloomberg […]
Immensely interesting and adorably anecdotal on January 31, 2019Erudite and highly composed, veteran journalist and celebrated television anchor, Karan Thapar is a household name in India because of his combative interviews. Karan Thapar’s illustriousness is not restricted only to India where he is settled after the demise of his wife Nisha. Karan, son of the former Indian army chief and an alumnus of […]
A pilgrims’ resolution on January 1, 2019J K Rowling discovered Hedwig from the core of obscurity and lifted her to the pinnacle of glamorous showbiz. Hedwig took five years to master her celebrity status; her fame was phenomenal after several performances in the Harry Potter films. Elders of white cranes, waterfowls, sandpipers, geese, pelicans and rooks suggested something more exciting for […]
21 days in South Korea on October 30, 2018Lotte World Tower, South Korea’s tallest buildingOur twenty-one days sojourn in South Korea was not influenced by Heinrich Herrer’s Seven Years in Tibet. Actually Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) invited sixteen officials from nine developing countries to share how state land management, development and disposal mechanisms are administered through a specialized agency of Korea Asset […]
Will of the stillborn on May 12, 2018The birth of a baby, living or dead, is not for celebration. It only adds to the miseries of the parents under the thick cloud of worries, as to how they will feed the child. Parents did not think of a lucid dream. The moment of birth was not joyful for them. Rawal’s birth caused multiple pangs and pains for his mother. The birth was viviparous. […]