We accept that we are more Indian than you think
We live in a country that is around 3,214 kms from north to south and about 2,933 kms from east to west with a land frontier of about 15,200 kms. According to the 2011 census, we have 623.2 million males and 587.5 females and this massive population lives on a mere 2.4 percent of the...
More Indian Than You Think
I browse the net and see the world At home in bed as I lie curled I hug the world through my Facebook Through tweets I let them watch my nook Whatsapp to know what’s up and on I Instagram through night and morn I travel far before you blink Yet I’m more Indian than...
Open up… you’re in India
The strangest thing about being an Indian is that we believe quite a bit of all that dear Bollywood feeds us… or all that gets fixated in our minds because we have not yet seen the complete picture. The give-me-some-sugar-in-a-bowl myth Such neighbors are everywhere and there is absolutely no escape from them. There will...
A little more is a lot more
There are more than 3 crore Indians settled abroad but that isn’t more. It isn’t less as well but then only numbers are never more. This summer I was in London and stayed with my son and daughter-in-law… and the two months that we spent in London have made me revise the way I...
