Freedom to disagree isn’t dead in India
Many may not be aware but there was a time when the Coffee House on the top floor of Mohan Singh Place on Baba Khadak Singh Marg near Connaught Place in New Delhi was the place where one could overhear a wide range of revolutionary and radical ideas. There were known and unknown writers, struggling...
Throw the R away in FrEE
Long queues, hurried footfalls, urgent changes in plans, snap-snap, snatch-snatch, adrenalin rush, and all survival techniques put to use are invariably found to co-habit wherever and whenever the word FREE comes into force. Just whisper the word ‘free’ and any place gets transformed into a war-zone. This is a global phenomenon created by brands to...
How much is too much of freedom
Freedom can never be shackled, imprisoned, and killed. If this happens anywhere, it is invariably when the courage to sustain it and keep it fluttering appears to dissipate or the strength to defend an argument weakens. When does an argument weaken? This happens when it doesn’t have too many takers from the masses. This simply...
Do I see traffic jams in the sky?
Freedom to fly To reach a height that you choose To perch where you want to To see the world as you fly To chirp or make the sound you can To swoop and to glide Yes, this is what freedom is For birds. You say you wish you were a bird? Well, look at...
The truth behind freedom
Yatra. Yatra is the truth behind freedom. Yatra is the truth that the historians and all the other thinkers and writers have mentioned but never really got down to identifying it as the one vital reason that led to India’s freedom. When I say yatra, I mean travel… travel is what opens the mind to...
What is freedom?
What do I think of freedom? Does it come with Tsardom or Czardom? Or Sheikhdom, chiefdom, Queendom, Princedom? No, these are nowhere near freedom! What is freedom? Well, is it found in gypsydom? Or Pagandom, Rebeldom, Saintdom? Or Hippiedom, Gangsterdom, Heathendom? No, no, I thought, these are too random. What is freedom? I searched then...
Press Freedom Day – write-up
PT Education will be celebrating the ‘Press Freedom Day’ on the 3rd of May this year. Throughout the world, May the Third serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right to freedom of expression and as a reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their daily...
