Heroes of yesterday and today! My visit to Bengal this time came after a very long gap. So, what I learnt this time while I spent a few days in Calcutta city and also when I paid a visit to Santiniketan, after a day out, driving through the Bengal countryside, what I read afresh from…
Month: September 2006
Magsaysay awards, Bharat Ratnas and the civil society movement
Just now we read that one Indian, that too a civil servant, Arvind Kejriwal, had been awarded the prestigious Magsaysay award for community leadership, for fighting for the Right to Information Act. To fight corruption in India is not a joke anymore, as everyday we witness the growth of corruption. Not a day passes in…
Is the BJP articulating its policies better this time?
The publication of Mr.Jaswant Singh’s book, A Call to Honor, had justly created a storm. Apart from the more sensational disclosures about the existence of a mole or a spy in the PMO of Narasimha Rao and the circumstances that led to the IC-814 hijack to Khandahar, the other details about the Pokhran-II, Kargil, 9/11,…
Zest for Living
Thoughts on class structure, material wealth and cultural attainments. Creative ideas, creative energy that keeps my enthusiasms alive! As soon as I finished typing this essay I went out and put on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Herbert Von Karajan. What an impact it made on me, on my mood! There was this sudden reaction and…