https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/kuwait-apartment-fire-many-killed/article68280816.ece Remember, we do not have enough information about what happened in the fire in June, earlier this year, in Kuwait. Why don’t we have information? Well, it’s because Kuwait does not permit freedom of the Press, or Kuwait and migrants don’t matter to us. If you were to file an RTI petition with the…
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Many of you may be familiar with the statement that this post will be referred to by. Now, when I read this after I heard it spoken by the government on TV, I sat and thought about the statement. Why did this statement sound so vague and without merit? A few days later: A few…
20202020This was something that was a given, for most of us in our generation. You worked as hard as you could and you ensured that you did your best. That gave you immense satisfaction. That is what Professional Pride is all about. My first Boss, Mathew Chandy taught me most of the lessons I needed…
20202020I have often wondered about myself. Where did i get this patience from ? I am not, by nature, a patient person. So, what happened? I think I figured out that the objects in my path were too large to remove in one, two or three shots. In hind sight I realised that if I…
202020201st June 2024 – around 8.00 pm. It’ was approximately at that time that I shrugged my shoulders and started watching something more interesting then the Exit Polls of Election 2024. The INDIA TODAY news channel, which I was watching, had just exclaimed ( that’s the nicest word you can use to describe how that…
20202020Tired Over the last few weeks I have been feeling an enormous sense of tiredness. A feeling of emptiness that I cannot explain. No, it is NOT the worst time in a long time, not at all. However, there is a feeling that I am in a flux. Nothing seems to be moving in the…
20202020In the beginning.. Today, I get a lot of flak from my family and people I know, for being on my phone for too long. I tried to keep it in check but realised that there was a limit to how much I could avoid using it. Then again, I wondered, what was wrong in…
20202020Making a point For most of my life I insisted that I had to make my point while in a discussion, an argument or even a debate. Whatever happens, I had to make my point. If the argument went wrong when I made my point, I never believed it was my fault, at least on…
20202020Before ..when we were growing up While I was growing up, I was born in 1962, every improvement in India was judged by it’s equivalent in the Developed World. The term Third World Country was something that was thrust upon those of us who lived in India. Later, the people who coined such terms placed…
20202020I am being arrogant and calling myself a writer, by saying that I have been suffering a Writer’s Block and am unable to finish Blogs I start. Anyway, do bear with me… Since I wrote last, I turned sixty. For some reason I believed that some wisdom would finally dawn on me but I really…
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