Sociopolitical

My uncut take on contemporary social and political issues.

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    Co-existing with COVID19!

       कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे (Gopaldas, ’Neeraj’) Yes the Virus is here, yes it is highly contagious and yes it is deadly! So what do we do? Fight, Freeze, or Flee? I’m afraid to inform you ‘Fleeing’ is not an option. You gotta either confront the virus or hibernate into oblivion, perhaps…

  • Sab Changa Si!

      Do we mindlessly pursue idea/habit/decision/comment which has a large following? The simple answer to that question is a straightforward NO, we pick things which make sense to us or which serve a purpose that we hold dear. A concept can not be deemed right or wrong basis who or how many second it. Every…

  • Undemocratic India!

    Discrimination by the law is unjust, on that account both Article 370 and 35A, did not have a place in present-day India. Special status by definition is discriminatory and particularly hated by the Indians who live outside J&K and did not benefit from its provisions.  The gripe, however, has been getting relentless support from the…

  • Raw Wisdom

    I admire, Narendra Modi, the politician, a lot more than Modi the PM or Modi the wannabe statesman. You can like him for who he is, the ideas he represents or hate him for the very reasons but you certainly can’t ignore his strong presence. With his bag of good, bad & ugly messages he…

  • Modi Times!

    Allow me to take you back to that press conference that late Atal ji had called in 2002 when he cancelled all his schedules to travel to an Indian state that was burning in communal violence, mindless killings tainted newspapers and television sets got a coat of deep red. In the court of the people,…

  • #MeToo & Us!

    Half a million people responded to a tweet from actress Alyssa Milano within 24 hours of her asking anyone who has ever been ‘sexually harassed or assaulted’ to reply to her post, she wanted to demonstrate the scale of the problem and thus was born the most successful and the most scary movement of our time…