Suyash Sharma

Tool kits are distraught they have traditionally been the prized possession of the proletariat, Karl Marx and Lenin up there in heaven are watching over the goings on shocked out of their wits. The hammer and sickle of Comrade Mao are witnessing how suddenly the media is going hammer and tongs and sullying their good […]

  The “glorious uncertainties of Cricket”, is how the victory of the underdogs, normally described in Cricket parlance. Indian Cricket team seems to have discovered quite a few tricks over the years and have more often than not turned the tables on their more fancied opponents. We did it in West Indies 50 years ago,

 Happy Valentines! Or should I say ‘Belan ..tines’, in India there are many who get their phonetics mixed up, with “V” being pronounced as “B” or “S” being pronounced as “SH” or vice versa. Valentine for the Eastern UP Bihar and even some parts of Bengal becomes Belantine, which I dare say is probably more

    “Someone taught me how to dance last night,What a mover he was! And someone taught me how to do it rightWhat a groover he was!”    Tina Charles would croon, and we would swoon, no not because of the lyrics or the beats of the song per se, it was because, we were

 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose – the name strikes a chord of patriotism which lies buried deep in our sub-conscious somewhere. For our generation and those preceding ours, who were brought up on the staple diet of 26th January and 15th August brand of patriotic fervour he was always an icon, a legend but an enigmatic

  ‘Attend C’ or ‘Sick in Quarter’ were the most sought after categories sought from the Doctors on duty, during our Academy days or even as a youngster whenever there was an event which was to be skipped for some reason. What heavenly bliss it was, everyone dressing up and getting on with their daily

Vaccination is the new buzz word, with the onset of the pandemic the race for vaccine had commenced, Russia was the first off the blocks to announce its Sputnik, but the most promising one appears to be AstraZeneca. This race is akin to a derby, where the punters are betting on their respective products, at

 ‘Love jihad’ is an oxymoron like the ‘wise fool’, although “All is fair in love and war”; obviously this ‘love yudh’ or ‘ishq jihad’ is highly unfair, as decreed by the powers that be. We shall soon criminalise these cupid struck wannabe ‘Love jihadis’. So will this then be a dharm yudh against jihad…..Holy crusades(!). 

Consequent to the latest round of Sino Indian LAC standoff, I am contemplating changing my profile,  I can no longer  be a “Confused Confucious”, that is obviously anti-national, I could be a Confused Chanakya or  Cunning Chanakya, or may be even Keen Kautilya even at the cost of being labelled as a “Keen kumar”, a