Addicted to the T

She was angry and afraid of her predicament. She felt that life had served her a raw deal. It was unfair, she deserved better. She was too good to find herself in this position. She spoke about it with her family and her friends. Some of them were sympathetic, they offered her their shoulders to …

The Maryada Conundrum

Few days back, a video clip went viral on social media, where a European traveling in a plane filmed his co-passenger eating food with her bare hands (without knives and forks) and said that it was gross to do so. As usual, the comments section was quickly filled with opinion about the cultured and acceptable …

Strip down and step down..!

The joke landed but only just. Part of the crowd laughed a bit and the rest smiled; amused with the clever wordplay but annoyed with the undertone. There was this unmistakable sense of smug superiority underneath the jovial demeanor of the performer. Intellectual racism; is when the speaker assumes and awards oneself a higher moral …

The Social Contract

Select transcript of Mel Gibson’s 1998 interview. The social contract: you can’t get mad; you can’t get mad, you can’t let it get you. You have to make a deal with everyone else and it’s almost unspoken, that you are going to be fucked over at some point, by people, who you may have done …

Oppenheimer, death of a star.

श्रीभगवानुवाच कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्तः । ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे येऽवस्थिताः प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः ॥ ११-३२ ॥ Bhagawan said, I have become death and I am inclined to destroy. Whether you chose to kill or not, your enemies shall die. तस्मात्त्वमुत्तिष्ठ यशो लभस्व जित्वा शत्रून्भुङ्क्ष्व राज्यं समृद्धम्‌ । मयैवैते निहताः पूर्वमेव निमित्तमात्रं भव सव्यसाचिन्‌ ॥ …

Godavari

प्रवाह आणि प्रतिबिंब सवयी, स्थिती आणि स्वास्थ्य असे काही मूलभूत प्रश्न घेऊन ८-१० वर्षांपूर्वी पुण्यातील एका मानसोपचारतज्ज्ञांकडे मी गेलो होतो. दैनंदिन जीवनातील पेच आणि त्यात गुरफटलेल्या सामान्य माणसाला समुपदेशनाची मदत होऊ शकते हे अजून सुद्धा समाजाला तितकंसं मान्य नाही. अर्थात बदल घडतोय आणि आजच्या जगण्यातील अनिश्चितता आणि अस्थिरता लक्षात घेता समुपदेशन हि काळाची गरज होणार …

India… India…

I remember reading an article many years ago, I think it was in India Today or maybe in The Week. It talked about cricket in the 90s and about Sachin in particular. How the streets went empty when he played and how traffic resumed when he got out. How he was the only player who …

Conflict and Art

Conflicts of all sorts are manufactured. Whether it is direct confrontation between two nations, or economic one-upmanship between large corporations or the covert assault of the ambiguous virus on the global population, everything is man-made. An average person has little or no control over these, it is sheer luck whether one survives or falls victim …

The Song I Remember, The Space I Revel

I was nineteen years of age, a typical young adult pushed out of the comfort and simplicity of school life and thrown in to the chaos of the outside world. The choices, the competition and the constant feeling of being behind the curve used to leave me feeling like an outlier. As I was grappling …

Trust and the game of seesaw

Trust, it is the single most misunderstood, misused and overvalued word in the relationship dictionary. No, this is not a click-bait opening statement. Having been in a committed relationship for over two decades and having been through all the ups and downs it had to offer, this is something that I have arrived at. No, …