
Miss Universe Throws a Boulder..!
As Harnaz Sandhu, with self-assurance and assertiveness, strong voice and spirited speech swept the Miss Universe title, she threw a message, not a bouquet of flowers to a waiting, receptive audience, but a boulder into the midst of the startled men of India! ‘I am not a wallflower, just a…

Political Leaders and Spicy Food..!
Ever so often, a common picture opportunity is when a political leader drops into the house of some poor person and has a meal with him or her. As the Prime Minister launched the Kashi Vishvanath Corridor Project, he supped with construction workers and I wonder whether he asked the…

A General is Dead..!
A General lies dead! Was it an act of war? Sabotage? Pilot error? Mechanical failure? He was not killed on a battlefield leading his men, not from an act of vengeance for some previous act to save the country, but dead, traveling on his own warhorse, piloted by his own…

A New Hitler: General Omicron..!
The new strain of Covid-19 strikes again, under its guerilla warfare chief Gen Omicron! And as we like little ants fortify ourselves, building walls and digging moats against the beginning of another formidable attack from this General and his troops, why don’t we learn a few lessons from the terror…

Farmers Protests and General Eisenhower..!
And as I hear that the Prime Minister has repealed the three farm laws, I move into the future and hear people, especially the new historians of our country saying, ‘There was never any farmer protests!” ‘Ofcourse there was!” I shout, “Through days of bitter cold and other days of…