Month: January 2010
Corruption: A new avatar in India
A ray of hope for forward communities
At long last, there is a ray of hope for the long-suppressed forward castes in India. Ever since independence there had been attempts to portray the entire forward castes as socially and economically ahead of all other castes, with the result that the poor among the so called forward communities were driven from pillar to …
India and gender equality
In India, the freelance writers or activists who champion the cause of the weak often come out with their views on gender discrimination, communalism and similar topics but they are in the habit of viewing things from their own narrow angle and give us a stereotyped picture of these topics. The other day, I happened …
Beauty is but skin deep
Strikes in India
The Lost Purse
The south junction railway station was noisy and crowded. There were long queues in front of the ticket counters. Nobody was free and leisurely. The man at the information center was blurting-out some ready made answers to the eager passengers. Dozens were standing before the telephone booth and on top of this, there were the …