Archive for April, 2011

Anna and the pseudo-democRats

Friday, April 15th, 2011

A thought provoking blogpost by G Sampath at DNA: In our lives as empowered citizens of the world’s largest democracy, how many times have we whined about corruption? Five times? 15 times? As long as we can remember? And how many times have we done anything about it? Not too many, on the evidence of [...]

Blame it On Anna Hazare

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Image Source and Poem: Shivam Gupta I am guilty of meddling with the title of the movie, ‘Blame It On Rio’ and giving the title Blame it On Anna Hazare, but my sentiments and feelings are quite pure, not muddled. I was trying to write a post every day and narrate here what I did [...]

In Pursuit of Happiness : Knowing People

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Few days ago, when I opened the newspaper, I saw a girl’s photograph and I said to myself, lo here is another model or bollywood wanna-be. I was about to turn the page but before doing that I glanced at the heading. This girl was Chhavi Rajawat at a UN Conference. Models or Bollywood actresses [...]