
More Light, Less Noise..!
The world is full of noise makers: People who shout and yell, people who put on a great show, and act like actors on a stage: Full of craftsmanship but little content! I’ve seen this in leaders who can speak great oratory but have hardly any content. People with more…

The Bhopal Fall…!
The streets of the old city of Bhopal are pretty crowded, with traffic screeching at your elbows, but that didn’t deter mee Mumbaikar, from striding along the road as if I owned it. I didn’t see the number plate sticking out of a parked scooter, tripped on it, and went…

Winning Against Terror..!
The first reaction after an act of terror, is to start looking suspiciously at the community from which the terrorist came from. In our anger against the dastardly act, in our reaction against the sometimes vividly graphic and bloody pictures that filter into our sitting rooms through our plasma, wide…

Somebody’s Watching You..!
A few years ago I felt saddened as I read that a religious organization who profess to work among the poor, the destitute and the needy and who run a tourist hotel in Delhi had cancelled the booking of a delegation traveling for the Leprosy Forum on the grounds that…

Pigeons, Humans, and Imbalance…!
The initial reaction over the bomb blast in Kerala, was that it was either a Muslim or Hindu group targeting Christians, and there was a lot of furore around why they would do so. Luckily it was not a member of an outside community involved. But the initial worry over…