Category: India

  • Lets defeat India together!!

    Lets defeat India together!!

    Eenie, Meenie, Miney and Mo ended up in the same hostel during their masters program in Bremerhaven. They come from different family backgrounds, different castes and even different religions, but this did not stop them from becoming friends. For the coming two weeks of Easter holidays, they decided to pack their bags and visit different…

  • Raising a child and Diwali

    Raising a child and Diwali

    Isn’t raising a child in the right way, the most difficult task in the world? Isn’t teaching him the difference between good and bad, right and wrong the most critical task? Are we witnessing falling standards, moral, ethics and integrity today in the Indian society? Hasn’t the line that demarcates right from wrong become indiscernible…

  • Gandhi, a Mahatma?

    Gandhi, a Mahatma?

    Every year, as soon as it is October the 2nd, there is a bevy of articles on M. K. Gandhi. Be on social media or mainstream media everyone talks about him. And every year I have the exact same dilemma. Everything that is being said or written about Gandhi is self-contradictory; at least I find…

  • Farm Bills 2020

    Farm Bills 2020

    I was getting worried if Corona has changed the way politics in India work for real. Somewhere it felt incomplete. But finally after six or may be seven months of long dull and dark night, we witnessed the morning light; deifying Corona’s new normal. Last week I heard the words “chakkajam” and “protests” after a…

  • Socioeconomic paradox of Indian Muslim Community and the people responsible for it

    Socioeconomic paradox of Indian Muslim Community and the people responsible for it

    Muslim rulers ruled India for around eight centuries before British arrived. Post independence, the members of the Muslim community served at some of the most coveted positions in India, be it the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, the Chief Election Commissioner, the Education Minister, you name it and you will find it. Not just…

  • Intellectual Lynching, frustration and suffocation

    Intellectual Lynching, frustration and suffocation

    As soon as the news about Sushant Singh Rajput passing away broke out, depression, mental health became the hot topic. Nepotism, his relationships, his financial condition, him losing movies, him feeling left out or him being treated as an “outsider” are being speculated as some of the potential reasons. Holding these reasons accountable for his…

  • The case of Wakfs and Economic status of Indian Muslims

    The case of Wakfs and Economic status of Indian Muslims

    Is Indian Muslim community really marginalized? Almost every other week if not month we all hear that socio-economic status of the Muslims in India is worse than any other community. Is it true? Not only do we hear this but we also hear about a report published in 2006 called as Sachar Committee report. Ever…

  • Reason behind moral degradation of Indian Society

    Reason behind moral degradation of Indian Society

    You must have heard the story about Chanakya, where he was walking and stepped over a thorn. The way he reacted to the incident was different from the way many of us would have reacted. He got a some Mattha (a drink made from curd) and poured the entire drink on the roots of the…