Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Kashmir and the democracy of the gunmen

You have to read stories from Kashmir. We are every day sold this lie by our media and govt that Kashmir is peaceful, its people are happy but not once do we let them speak on camera and voice their opinions. We recently snatched their statehood from them, we divided their state into three parts, […]

Ayodhya Judges Forgot That Justice Isn’t A Please-All-Show

The long-awaited, more than twenty years, Ayodhya Judgement is here. Before we dwell on the same, ever wondered why people go to the courts? Why they spend on lawyers, on their travels to court? After all, all they do is present arguments from each side which they could do before a sarpanch in a village […]

Bolt From The Blue - Something Happened Today

Photo by Artem Bali on Unsplash I forgot my red water bottle. Wait, what? You want us to read about you losing your water bottle? No, no, not any bottle but red water bottle with white cap. It’s no ordinary bottle. It’s the one that I take with me to the gym. The one in […]

Unwarranted Obedience From Citizens In A Republic Is The Final Nail In Coffin For Democracy

Across the world, democracy is seeing a fast decline. Now one may deny, dismiss or raise unwarranted doubt over this at one’s own risk but it is an observable fact across the globe. “In Turkey and Egypt, Hungary and Poland, the Philippines and Venezuela, we are witnessing pseudo-democracies taking hold. Meanwhile, democracies that once inspired […]

Sorry, But People Won’t Remember Or Follow Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Ideals For Ages — They Are Lying

People including Modi who are saying Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his ideals would be remembered for ages to come are lying. No, they will not. For a decade or more now Vajpayee was inactive in politics but he was alive yet his ideals weren’t. Forget ideals, even his picture slowly disappeared from BJP’s billboards and […]

A Lady Who Wanted To Take This Teenage Boy To Police Station For Not Obeying Her

Bus rides are joyful experiences. To travel peacefully on a window seat staring quietly at the passerby’s, looking at people on bikes and cars hurrying themselves to reach someplace quicker, buildings by buildings of varying sizes passing like a film via the window glass. And then if you are lucky you meet a nice fellow […]

West Bengal Panchayat Elections And The Parallels Between Mamata Banerjee and He-Who-Cannot-Be-Blamed

I’m a slow reader and a human, there are times when I miss reading something and there are times when I choose to not react if I feel I know not enough, West Bengal’s Panchayat elections were one of them. This one is on West Bengal and the elections that were concluded some time back, […]

Many IT companies And Other Industries Are Saying ‘Aadhaar Is Mandatory For Availing Provident Fund’ But Is It? - Here’s What An RTI Reply From EPFO Said

Recently I received a joining letter from a reputed IT company of India which has its headquarters in Bengaluru (or Bangalore). There wasn’t much to the joining letter except mentioning Aadhaar card as the mandatory document for onboarding. Now for people living under rocks, Aadhaar card is a new identity card issued by the government […]

Few Questions On The Ghastly Gangrape of 8-Year-Old Asifa Bano That People Do Not Want To be Discussed

Almost everyone who is talking about Asifa (Don’t fret if you don’t know what happened to her, read on to find out) is speaking as if it was just another case of crime against women. It was not. Many on my timeline were comparing her with Nirbhaya. It is as if they want to put […]

Four Short Stories From Rural India On How ‘Mandatory’ Aadhaar Has Wrecked People’s Lives And Left Them Begging For What Was Granted Earlier

If one looks closely, Aadhaar has stripped us of our basic dignity and has also converted us into a flock of sheep that asks no question but only takes orders and moves from one queue to another, every new day. This post isn’t about the innumerable deaths Aadhaar has caused due to it being ‘mandatory’ […]