Not even God can prevent rape
Now, now, please do not hang me for the title of this post. These are the words of Aziz Qureshi, a former Governor from Mizoram, quoted form news-reports from July 2014. And if you think he is the only Indian to have a contorted interpretation of the word, you are mistaken. Sheila Dikshit, a former...
Reimagining our world
Politicians are forever doing this. I mean, reimagining the world. They have glorious day-dreams of cleaning up the safes of the rich and the poor, the mighty and the insignificant, the tax-payer and the cheat… they love clean safes. Even their safes in their homes are generally clean, unless the transfer to their Swiss bank...
Outrage
The year was 1985 and I had been married for a few months. We had gone to Jhansi, my hometown and decided to spend a day in Khajuraho. We boarded the early morning bus from the railway station. I didn’t know that it would be this bus journey that I would remember and not the...
Blobs on my Blog 004 – Sense & Sensex
Where the sensex behaves like an imbecile And rapists plead to be juveniles Where honesty stays inside a file And the life of a scamster flies If this is what India is all about I’d want to get out and stay out! Mr Blob was in a really wile state of mind as he...
