We Need to Touch the Rock Bottom

Every time the Supreme Court or one of our High Courts decides to enter the social or political arena from their regular habitat at the jurisprudential or legal ones, we cheer them for what is now commonly known as ‘Judicial Activism’. Be it Justice Krishna Iyer, Bhagwati, the one-man green bench Kuldip Singh or some [...]

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A thought for the those who get swayed by politicians

    Charles Mingus in his song Don’t Let it Happen Here :
    One day they came and they took the Communists
    And I said nothing because I was not a Communist
    Then one day they came and they took the people of the Jewish faith
    And I said nothing because I had no faith left
    [...]

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Raj Thackeray and I

If only someone told them (the very few who actually agree with the Thackeray clan of Politics) that Bombay is not a Well of Money waiting for the inhabitants to draw from it. This is a city with oppurtunities like many others. Wealth here needs to be created. What seems like a well of money [...]

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Religious Tolerance – A Senseless Term

Religious tolerance has been preached as a virtue for ages. But I believe the concept in itself is flawed. Tolerance is a derivative of ‘to tolerate’, which signifies a voluntary non-action against injustice, pain or rather anything unacceptable. Therefore, the term religious tolerance signifies that the very existence of another religion is painful and unacceptable [...]

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Mooting Democracy

“For all men cling to justice of some kind, but their conceptions are imperfect and they do not express the whole idea.”
We reached moon. So have our ideas – our ability to think, to visualize, to debate and to arrive at new original principles. Today, the fastest means of communications exist. We can talk to [...]

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