Its blazing hot in Lucknow, with hot winds blowing throughout the day which are hot enough to cook you up if continually exposed to it. Weather department is busy giving predictions of the upcoming wrath of Sun. With temperature nearing 45 degree Celsius, Lucknow is looming the hot May of 1999 when it touched the same […]
Fantasizing the Indian PM
Everyone in India is expecting a change, after an assumed and perceived stagnancy of at least 10 years (that is what most of the people around me are saying). This change has to be a grand one because the expectations are really high. From Kashmir to Kanya Kumari and from Gujarat to Arunanchal Pradesh (that […]
The Teacher and Me. (Part 2)
If, somehow good inspires the bad to come to it, then the positive conversion is easier because when bad leaves its place to be with good it does this to be like good or in other words it finds some attraction in good. In my case education became that attraction and officially uneducated children, adults […]
The Teacher and Me. (Part 1)
I don’t recollect when was the first day I started the act of teaching in my life. Maybe, as the vague memories lead me to, I started to teach when I was barely over with my tables to ten. Ah! Tables what vivid scenes pop up before my eyes of those rhythmic and sonorous repetitions […]
Fixing the Fourth Estate
Way back in 2007-08 one of my cousins, in a lake side discussion, pointed out that how media giants are into news-fixing or rather fixing the news. None amongst the listeners could refute, because the one who introduced this news was himself a news-man in a media-giant of India. It was something that was hard […]
An essential ingredient…
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. (Matt. 5:13) How can a person become salt? Salt in all its utility is most commonly […]