By censoring a movie, you can't conceal the big drug menace in Punjab. Today, in Punjab, people are turning to drugs and drinks than to their duties. And to think that the rest of India is unaware about this is being as blinded to reality as Rahul Gandhi is about his leadership skills and
What can be more noble and satisfying than leading your nation on the path of progress? There is no reason why politics should not attract the best minds in the country. To be a politician, one needs a vision, intelligence and knowledge of political processes, combined with a hands-on approach to grassroots problems. Politics can teach
As an Indian, I’ve become rather concerned about the hype we’re hearing about our own country — all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower. India is often called the 21st Century power. And I just don’t think that’s what India’s all about, or should be all about. Indeed, what
Physics teaches us 2 quantities - vector and scalar. While both of them have magnitude there exists a major difference between them and that is of direction. A vector has direction while a scalar quantity doesn't. To me a perfect example of a scalar quantity is India. Yes, India! I can’t help it. I am
In the India of today, politicians and government officials are largely inaccessible to the general public. They are more like dictators. They meet us once in 5 years and then disappear. Yes, sometimes we do see our leaders in the news when they make stupendous statements which show their total disconnect from the general Indian
As the midnight hour approached, N prepared himself for his country’s tryst with destiny by fixing a fresh rose on to the button hole of his cotton vest. In a few hours, the long and hard struggle to rid India of foreign rule would bear fruit. N had grand dreams for his beloved India, of
Products and brands have a life-cycle and a fixed life period. Commonly this cycle progresses as development, introduction, growth, maturity, decline and eventually death and disappearance. The pioneer of mosquito repellents in India, the Tortoise brand (popularly called ‘Kachchua Chaap’) is still famous but dead. The toothpaste ‘Promise’ is now mostly given in small bathroom packs in
The Nation: India is a developing country. In fact, it has been developing for so long that it is practically an overgrown baby. Unlike babies in general, however, this baby is not temperamental but full of equanimity. Practically nothing can provoke this baby called India. Border transgressions, terrorist attacks on our cities, parliament, external interference
Switch on an Indian news channel today and it will be flooded with just 1 news item - the sentencing and subsequent disqualification of Congress MP Rasheed Masood, who was till today afternoon a sitting Member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. Many news channels are hailing it as historic and calling it
Recently, a humorous photo is doing the rounds on Facebook which says, "I went to a fish market and shouted, 'What is this? A classroom?', thereby maintaining the balance of the Universe. " Hilarious, but also something to learn from. Doing the rounds on facebook Everything in the world needs to be balanced.
