Misplaced priorities in India

India is also in the grip of a deadly Carona virus. The entire nation is in the grip of fear. There is a complete lockdown in the entire country. This lockdown has been extended for another twenty-one days. Air-services, train services, transport, metro-services, educational institutions, government offices etc, all have been closed for twenty-one days. […]

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William Dalrymple as a realist story-teller

William Dalrymple is a great modern historian. He was a very popular History Exhibitioner at illustrious Trinity College, Cambridge University. He is also a great storyteller, narrator, journalist, historian and a very keen traveller. His travelogues are so popular and amazingly narrative that they have become a part of literature. In 1989, Dalrymple moved to […]

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Corona Poem

Wash hands like Lady Macbeth, Seclude like Miss Havisham for health. Put off and delay your tasks like Hamlet, Maintain distance like Elizabeth Bennett. Don’t run like Desdemona dear, Don’t cry and go mad like King Lear. Eat like Falstaff and protect, Put on masks like Benedict. Be proud like Darcy and avoid dancing with […]

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Coronavirus and travel ban

India and Indians were very happy and tension free. Our neighbour China was in the grip of deadly virus Corona which killed thousands of people and lakhs of people were affected by the virus. China, although is a very developed and advanced nation even then, it has no knowledge or medicine to control the deadly […]

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The Nation of Nero’s

Delhi, The capital of India is burning with communal riots between the Muslims and the Hindus. More than forty people have lost their lives but nothing concrete has been done by any of the organs of the governance. The central government is the silent spectator, fearing the wrath of the Judiciary, Media, the Human Right […]

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Fall of Indian media

“Militant” for “Islamic and Naxal terrorists.” “Protestors” for “Muslim and Communist rioters and arsonists.” Those are some of the words used by Indian journalists in a much-designed manner. Those journalists who do not toe this line is at the receiving end. They are called as “bhakts” or “saffron agents” by the left-liberal and Islamist journalists […]

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I am a Hindu

You are empowered to censure me, It is your freedom of speech; But if I censure you, I will be branded as intolerant. If you criticize my faith, It is your enlightened; If I criticize your faith, I will be branded as bigoted. If you laugh at my faith, You will be decorated as secular; […]

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Liberated from worldly fun

Hovering and dancing in this magical world, Nobody can avoid the maddening crowd’s thud, The noise and the dust of the worldly affairs, None can escape the dark laws and the cruel legislators, Where rulers throwing the freebies for fun, Blinding the layers of heart, mind and bun. Masses cannot understand this by their jaundiced […]

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THE DEBT NEVER PAID

My father does not realize, what being alone a tough size is. He gazes at us moves by in shadows, Days spent with him are green meadows. He has a strong will to forget the sweet past; He thinks he has completed his job last. Of life for which he was never paid, But he […]

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