How can a TV channel obtain the bank statement of a deceased customer?How can a bank release the statement? How can the channel air and discuss its contents openly? That is how lax India’s privacy laws are. That is the disdain with which we treat personal and private matters – of others. The channel’s anchors…
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Model television debate!
What an enlightening debate! Please make sure your children watch this and learn how to speak to elders.
The Specter of Caste in Silicon Valley
This is not just limited to this one case or to Silicon Valley. I have seen it in every company I have worked for in the US, in every social organization I have been part of and even in many of the apartment complexes I have lived in, over the last two decades in the…
Lockdowns inspiring creativity!
Really, one good thing this lockdown thing has done. It has brought out people’s most creative, imaginative and humorous side to the fore! I just loved this! 🙂
Mask on my face? Never!
America is forever pushing the envelope when it comes to personal freedom! My mask protects me, but it protects you more. Your mask protects you, but it protects me more. Both our masks work together to protect both of us. Yes, I am free to stay at home and avoid any risk. But maybe I…
The law itself has been encountered!
Why do we need courts and judges in this country? Why do we need the law and due process and the rule of law? Why not let the police shoot criminals as soon as they catch them? Why not dispense with words like democracy and fairness and justice? I know people will say ‘Good riddance,…
Pay for hurting people!
When you find yourself in a prolonged spell of hardship or sorrow in life, stop cursing your luck and asking ‘Why me’? Instead, examine your deeds of the past and ask yourself whether you have knowingly and wantonly troubled or hurt someone by your actions or words. And if you have, confess, at least to…
Thumping our chests for nothing we did!
We Indians immediately thump our chests and become ‘proud to be an Indian’ whenever people like Sundar Pichai or Satya Nadella make it in other countries, as though all 1.3 billion of us are collectively responsible for their rise from mediocrity to eminence. Sorry to disappoint you, guys, but actually, their ‘Indianness’ has nothing to…
How we insult women!
There are many things offensive in our Bollywood films but here are a couple that I find most obnoxious.One is the scene where a married woman dutifully touches the feet of her husband. I just hate those scenes, the bowed head and the pious look on the woman’s face, the expression of benign magnanimity on…
Nepotism and Bollywood!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-L_9__pqRc&feature=share Why all this fake outrage over nepotism in Bollywood? Nepotism, sycophancy, politics, conspiracy – these are the bane of the Indian psyche and society. It is the dominant factor in our personal, familial and professional lives. So, is it so surprising that it thrives in the environment that Bollywood provides, with all its…