“Sachin’s retirement is like Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination”A nation wept with the maestro as he bid farewell to ‘a life between those 22 yards for 24 years’ on November 17 at home-ground Wankhede. Never before had the world witnessed such a moment as it was when the Little Master, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar bent down in supplication and touched the pitch in gratitude.Over the years, every Indian has...

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India's food 'insecurity'

As the whole country sheds tears over onions, people in Odisha have some more reasons which are bringing tears to their pockets. It is an unusual potato and salt crisis which has strangled Odisha.The potato politicsAfter having suffered sky-rocketing onion prices, a deadly cyclone and floods, people in Odisha can now be seen lined up in long, serpentine queues in front of the Government run Udyan...

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God’s own religion

Last week my visit to Jagannath Puri made me realize that the whole hullabaloo around Modi being a secular or not is a waste of time because in a ‘secular’ and religiously tolerant country like India, even God has a religion and that religion is Hinduism.Of course, in a Hindu dominated state God has...

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Leherein

Kuch to khaas hai in lehro meJo mujhse yun takrati hai,Shor me khamoshi jaisi,Subah ki pheli angadayi jaisi,Jaise ho koi tamanna adhuri si,Na jaane kisko chuna chahti hai.Koi baat chupaye hai shayad apne seene mein,Kuch to kehna chahti hai,Kayi ankahi kahaniya dabi hai andar,Awaaz lagakr mujhko bulati hai,Samajh ni paati me inki jubaan,To shayad ruth jaati hai,Ufaan ki tarah aati hai,Or maati k mehel...

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Stories from the sea

She is magnificent but elegant, she is violent yet tranquil, she is attractive but mysterious, she is calm but holds a lot of might in its bosom, she is the grandeur of the sea that hides and unfolds the most complex and interesting human emotions and sentiments and I call her 'she' because like a woman...

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Finally hanged or 'Hanging'...

We do not take her name because we don't know. We call her 'daughter of India', 'Nirbhaya', 'Damini' etc.. We don't take her name because of legal reason and also because we think we know a lot about her, she wanted to be a physiotherapist, her last movie was Life of Pie which proved fatal and she was...

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Is it lust or male chauvinism

Well a lot had been said about the infamously famous Nirbhaya case and I know a lot will be said about the recent rape of a photojournalist. Oops sorry I should not use the word rape because our law no more recognises, it is sexual assault now. Anyways, one of the implications of this incident on me...

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Caught by a poet & bitten by a shutterbug ;)

Kuch baat hai is jagah meApna sa lagta h yhaKuch din hue h yhaPar hamesha sa lagta hai yha..Kabhi baadal kabhi in sitaaro me kho jaane ka mann krta hai.Jab bhi dekhti hu ye neeli chadar sa neela asmaanThoda sa chup jaane ka mann krta hai,In ghane pedo k daaliyo me jhul jaane ka mann krta hai.Kuch baat...

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To the government...

Dear government,I may not be known to you, but we are related actually we are intricately related. We are tied in a bond. When I chose you, the bond was supposed to be that of trust and loyalty but with deep regret I am forced to say that I gave birth to an illegitimate child.You needed me for your existence, you also needed me for your survival but when it came to fulfilling my hopes and aspirations,...

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