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You asked for it Mr Chetan Bhagat I know you have been inundated by trolls, hate and abusive mails but did you honestly expect that the veteran community will be overjoyed at your rather immature take on this grave issue ? I am sure with your superior IIT IIM intellect and your calculating investment banker […]

Train journeys are nostalgic , they invariably bring back memories of days of yore when this was the only means of long distance public transport which was affordable for the masses .  The long never ending travails when one was bound for the hostel in the initial days or the joyous ones when we were

We are typical middle class Indians, kumbh conjures an image of unimaginable crowds, mismanagement, filthy ghats , the jostling pandas and stupid fools participating in this chaos where naga sadhus and cattle rule the roost. That is precisely how I felt till a friend decided to take his mother for this holy dip. Initially even

Symptoms or theDisease Ram Singh, one of the five main accused in the infamous Delhi Gang Rape case committed suicide as reported in the electronic media today. While many of us would have felt a sort of satisfaction at this gory end of such a heartless individual, there are many who would feel, he actually deserved

Should we as a nation be scared of the future which appears gloomy right now or is there light at the end of the tunnel? That is a moot question, which majority of middle class India seems to be occupied with. We have had our fill of the “bak bak brigade” of Arnab, Rajdeep and

A visit to the dentists’ is a dreaded affair for most, naturally so, like death and taxes the third certainty of life is the dentists’ chair. I have often wondered whether the electric chair would be as dreadful, may be less, because you do it just once as against the dentists’ where you are doomed

“Ram was a bad husband!”, “Rahul Gandhi is like a groom’s mount”, “Kejriwal’s expose’ are like those of Rakhi Sawant, both lack substance”, these are some unquotable quotes of our worthy politicians. I have just picked up the latest gems, of course there are even more priceless ones which have been uttered by these so

“Ram was a bad husband!”, “Rahul Gandhi is like a groom’s mount”, “Kejriwal’s expose’ are like those of Rakhi Sawant, both lack substance”, these are some unquotable quotes of our worthy politicians. I have just picked up the latest gems, of course there are even more priceless ones which have been uttered by these so

Why are we so emotional by nature? Is it because our “EQ”, as it is referred to these days, is genetically in the lower strata or is it something else? God only knows! But every time we go for a movie and especially when it happens to be “Tare Zamin Par”, it is a rarity

Kala Pani, the image conjured is of freedom fighters and the yoke of colonialism and our pride in the hard fought and won freedom. The archipelago is mesmerising in their appearance especially from the air craft windows. All our dreams associated with the Caribbean or Mauritius or even Seychelles seem to come alive. The pristine