The long dark tea time of the soul

APJ Abdul Kalam’s tenure as the president of India ends in july next year, and a search has already started to find India’s next head of state. The political temperature is already heating up, with names being propped up from left (Somenath Chatterjee), right (B.S. Shekhawat) and center (Karan Singh). And somebody actually [...]

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About six months earlier, I saw a programme on CNN comedy central. It was the time when the Bush thing had appointed Wolfowitz as World bank president and Bolton as the US representative to the UN, inspite of all the opposition. Well using appropriate visuals and graphics the commentator argued that the balls (the testicles) [...]

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We, Indians, must have heard/read/uttered this slogan a million times in our lifetime. “Kashmir se Kanyakumari tak Bharat ek hai” (India is One from Kashmir to Kanyakumari). The interesting question is, India is one what between its northern and southern ends? (Kashmir se Kanyakumari tak Bharat kya hai?) I was pondering over it for quiet [...]

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