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Nation
Democracy. It is something we live and breathe everyday. Something which fills me up with emotions I cannot really explain, emotions of kinship and solidarity of the same kind I feel everytime I stand up and sing the national anthem. It took me a long time to understand that my notion of the Indian Freedom […]
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Serendipity
I have always felt something when I said ‘home’. But I don’t think I ever really understood what it meant, until my trip to Bangalore. Home is the perforated shadow of the leaves of a massive deciduous tree, falling on a smooth tar road. Home is the call of a koel. Home is the crunch […]
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Growin’ Up!
Sometimes, its important to forget about the semiotics and greater meaning of things and sit down and pull the Pensieve out. Its important to be back in the humid, hot, carpeted ‘drawing room’ of my father’s house, where a jet black, frighteningly expensive Sony tape deck is pounding away. And as I watch myself lying […]
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Catholic Suburbia
Hollywood has always been known as the strong-hold of Democrats, liberals, gay rights activists and other nuisance makers of that ilk. Apart from Mel Gibson of course, who seems completely unaware of any such predilections. The Academy Awards are infamous for having become a forum where screen icons diss Republicans, while the Award nominees and […]
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Glass Revisited
A view from a glass-fronted cabin of my office. The forlorn wall is all that remains of a three-storied office that used to exist only a few months ago. it was one of the scores of three-storied pre-1991 offices which had come up on the mill campuses of Lower Parel, Elphinstone & Currey Road after […]
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A Million Concentration Camps
“Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.” Hannah Arendt (German born American Philosopher and Political scientist. 1906-1975) White fluff flies everywhere, and it feels like I am in […]
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McLuhan’s Quote On Human Behaviour
Marshall McLuhan: “Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”
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Language
This is a passage from Chapter 4 of Orwell’s “1984”: ‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, […]
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The Commanding Heights
When I was growing up, I never gave any thought to how much importance people gave to the kind of houses they lived in or aspired to. It was a significant part of the GIMD (Great Indian Middle Class Dream). I remember a kitty party I once attended hosted by the MD of my father’s […]
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Spoiler Warning (Harry Potter)
A Death In The Family It is the end of a generation. As if all of us, suddenly passed on, into a land where we were no longer children, where we no longer had an imagination, where we could no longer say we were, truly, alive. The Boy Who Lived was mortal after all. And […]
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