GURU (TEACHER) — AN ADULATION 1. Almost a month and a half after the auspicious festival of “Guru Purnima” (which this year fell on Wednesday, 13th July as per the English Calendar) — a day traditionally devoted to expressing our love, affection and appreciation for our teachers and Gurus and…

DUTY VS OBLIGATION — AN ARCHETYPAL DISTINCTION 1. To provide the requisite perspective and enable better appreciation of this blog, I would like to begin with reference to a quotation that I have frequently seen on posters in many houses and which I have found always extremely relevant:- “A house…

Sometime slightly more than two years ago, when the pandemic had first bared its deadly fangs and the world was in the midst of a series of deafening lockdowns, we had celebrated, in a somewhat muted manner (considering the circumstances) our dear Charlie Bhai Sahib’s eightieth birthday. I had also…

UNLEASHING THE HIDDEN POTENTIAL OF HIJRAS (EUNUCHS) AND MAINSTREAMING THEM INTO SOCIETY Recently at the Mundan (“shaving a baby’s first hair on the head”) ceremony of my grandnephew and grandniece, I was witness to the auspicious yet unpleasant sight (depending on your view point — no offences implied or controversies…

THE CURSE OF CURSING Having been brought up in a family (whether immediate or extended) where the core values of decency, grace and a calm demeanour were deeply embedded and the staples of day to day life and having been nurtured in an environment where civility was the norm, the…

Omnipresent Humanity Sometime back (a time made to feel perceptibly like an eon by the pandemic which has engulfed the world and turned it topsy turvy) I had written on the need to identify, characterize and define individuals not by their caste, colour, region, religion or any such seemingly diverse…

Andaman and Nicobar Islands — An archipelagic Shangrila 1. Slightly less than two years ago, when COVID -19 had first raised its searing head and the pandemic had begun to shake the world, I had written about how increased domestic tourism can be an aid in steam rolling a post-pandemic…

“Bibi” — My Mother My mother, Shanti Devi, (who me and my four siblings addressed fondly and affectionately as “Bibi”) passed into eternity exactly twenty three years back (13th January 1998, to be precise), on the auspicious day of Lohri, a day which marks the beginning of the auspicious period…

Abundant vs Adequate vs Appropriate Recently I happened to read an Article titled “Liquidity Conundrum: Abundant vs Adequate vs Appropriate” written by Tamal Bandyopadhyay, the Consulting Editor of the financial daily “Business Standard” which talked about the dilemma being faced by the Reserve Bank of India and the Monetary Policy…