A grilling conversation with a fiery intent
‘Hi there… can we talk?’ I looked around and was taken aback to find a fiery grilled chicken piece waving frantically at me. ‘You?’ I asked with incredulity clearly infiltrating my voice, posture, and even expression. This was surely one of those hard-to-believe moments that I had, as yet, only read in novels. A conversation,...
For God’s sake, it is about the rights of people
Words, without the support of a sentence, can say a lot sometimes. This is how I would analyse the phenomenon of the Anna Hazare movement against corruption that rocked the Indian parliament in August 2011. This war against corruption had innumerable shades supporting it… individuals, small groups, and larger groups spread all across the country...
Weaving a Revolution through Blogs, Micro-blogs, & Gandhi
Do you really know what happened in Egypt? Was there a revolution or just a premature revelation of a stressed-out response? Was it the impending fear of a massive blood-bath that made Hosni Mubarak give up? Were blogging and micro-blogging the real heroes? Did Gandhian principles once again rise and conquer? Or is it simply...
