Before I saw the movie! Now that the cricket season is in a sort of lull, we have invented another match to keep us all occupied – Lal Singh Chadda versus Forrest Gump! There are hundreds of millions of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans all over the world who may have not seen Forrest Gump,…
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Cooking up some thoughts!
While my daily struggles in the kitchen have brought both humor and frustration in our lives, I cannot help but wonder why the male child in Indian households is not kitchen-trained at an early age the way female children are. By the time they are nine or ten, girls are pushed into the kitchen by…
English-vinglish!
I read today that a certain state in India has built and runs a large number of government English medium schools. As is the norm these days, social media has exploded in a storm of political mockery and nationalistic outrage at the fact that that state chose English as the medium of instruction, and not…
To Hijab or to Hijab is the question!
I don’t know whether the Hijab has been prescribed by the Quran. Even Muslims are divided in their opinion. Accordingly, some wear the Hijab and some don’t. Really, I don’t care either way. The High Court of Karnataka decided that the Hijab is not prescribed by the Quran. The Court’s other observation is that schools…
India makes progress on LGBTQ / Transgender issues! Thanks to Bollywood!
I saw the movie Badhai Do yesterday and Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui a few days back. Just some random thoughts based on those movies: I think India is becoming far more progressive and liberal on LGBTQ and Transgender issues than the US, which seems to be regressing on all LGBTQ, Transgender and Abortion issues. The US…
Elephantine memories!
My maternal grandfather was terribly mischievous. He created and got into a lot of serious trouble throughout his life. Once my grandfather coated the insides of a coconut with a whole lot of ‘chunnambhu’ or ‘chuna’ (I think it is called lime cement in English, the kind used in our ‘paan’), fed it to an…
The passing of an old man
When I see the kind and number of vicious and malevolent messages on social media about the death of Fr. Stan Swamy, my mind goes back to the time when Indira Gandhi was murdered. She had a lot of haters too, millions on millions hated her, especially after the atrocities during the Emergency. And yet,…
Let’s not grab too much credit for lower Covid numbers – my take on Chetan Bhagat’s blog in the Times of India!
I don’t blame any govt for mishandling Covid. This pandemic was sudden and unprecedented. Nobody knew what to do or what was the right approach. It was all trial and error and the jury is still out on what works and what doesn’t. Nobody has established a cause-effect relationship so far beyond a shadow of…
Rear-view driving!
https://twitter.com/swamy39/status/1333378593812955136?s=21 Stop resurrecting useless things from India’s past while the present and future of this country is precariously hanging in the balance. This is like trying to drive forward while constantly looking into the rearview mirror and blackening out the windshield. It will only end in driving the country into a ditch. The choice is…
Life and washing machines
Life and washing machines Imagine you are one of the Gods sitting on your throne in the Kingdom of Heaven watching your universe below. Do you think you will see these little creatures like human beings and animals and insects and birds all scurrying around like tiny little programmed puppets on strings, moving along in…