Category: Society

All this war with Corona was going on very well. We had insinuated every necessary measure through our global team to fight this pandemic with all vengeance. When suddenly, my bai (maid) declared that she will also be working from home, in reply to respected Prime Minister Modiji’s call for social distancing. This was bolt…

The only thing permanent is: CHANGE! This is what we have always heard and experienced. The world has faced extreme difficult situations in the past. From the epidemics to the fire to the two world wars. Back then, things must have felt as if they would destroy the entire world, that there would be no…

Reading Wordsworth’s poem ‘The World Is Too Much with Us’ awakens us to the present state of affairs. We begin to wonder that if as early as in the Romantic age itself, the circumstances had forced the sensitive Wordsworth to compose on the loss of sensitivity in his short poem by writing “Getting and spending…

The new normal screams through the newspapers, the TV sets, the internet sites and the police vans deployed to create awareness regarding the do’s and don’t’s during the pandemic break. Every morning, noon and night and even between these intervals, I am reminded that I need to cover my mouth when I go out, I…

What is this happening?  Nothing that we had ever thought of. Nothing that we ever believed would happen in this 21st Century. We had the two great World Wars of the last century as reminder, and we thought that the world has learnt its lesson. Now we are more educated, civilized, aware of our rights…

We all are addicts. This way or that way, it is addiction that defines happiness for us in the present century. It is the ‘five day work culture and two days’ of any addiction has become the routine. I can be a mobile addict, a booze addict, a T V addict or a work addict,…

I value my close friends because they do not judge me in the way perhaps as relatives do or society does! The other reasons of valuing friends are obvious. There is sharing, trustworthiness, transparency and happiness. But yes, the most important quality of my close friends is that they do not judge my thoughts and…

I was sitting at my desk in the office and was contemplating whether I should go to one of my colleagues to seek his help in a particular problem. I knew he would have the answer to it. There were no apparent differences of opinions hanging between us. Nor was there any coldness creeping over…

When I was a student of FY, once, the seniors barged into our College room. It was obvious that the next hour or so would be spent in facing the obnoxious and fearful ragging. We all cringed at the prospect. But then someone whispered that the Head of the Department is on his way. We…

Why is it that when we meet some people we end up having a negative vibe from them. They seem to be unfriendly, uncooperative, egoist, indifferent, at times violent or simply jealous of us. We might think that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. So they might feel threatened…