The dance of the hands
Hands show the way. Hands can tell what is right. Hands dance in ways that can create or even destroy. Hands bring together all the joys possible. Hands never differentiate between wombs and sperms… it is the mind guiding hands that, under societal pressure, gives out instructions that raises walls and segregates. And then hands...
Please turn… I want to kick your backside
Yes, this is how it always happens when you talk about changing or wanting to change someone or something or some place or some attitude or some moment. You invariably have to say: Please turn… I want to kick your backside! Delhi is a stubborn city as the people here are either netas or babus...
My Rule Book
When Arnold Schwarzenegger says that the ‘Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety,’ one just nods his head. But despite such strong words and emotions travelling through the centuries, we still find ourselves a trifle insecure and unsafe… despite all the progress in all fronts… despite the umbrella of technology… despite pepper sprays...
I’m alone… and yet I’m not
Some words are unforgettable. I remember having watched a martial arts movie when I was in the Indian Military Academy where the main protagonist says: ‘We’re all basically alone. We have to fight our battles alone and by ourselves. Therefore, prepare well.’ I neither remember the name of the movie nor what happened after nor...
The construction worker’s daughter
The worker’s daughter that I noticed was while I was on my seventh floor balcony watching the construction workers on a Sunday. Some were working while others were enjoying the winter sun, the boys were playing… but this family had a target to complete. I observed this family of four… father, mother, son and daughter....
The 26 mantras of empowerment to women
The early Roman society treated them as chattel, in France they were labelled ‘half-soul creatures responsible for the destruction of society’, the Chinese are known to have called them the ‘devil’s soul’, and Arabs buried them live as they were thought to be a ‘form of disgrace’. I am talking of women. The first sordid...
Is MBA only for males?
When Nancy Reagan said: “A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water”, she was not much off the mark. If an MBA and the career options after it are tough, women are tougher! So whoever says that an MBA is not...
