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Little Red’s New Coat, Road Dahl
I was speaking to my mum on the phone today, when my dad came on the line specifically to tell me that he read my post reproducing James Thurber’s retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, and that he...
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Victimising the Good Men
There has been a lot of noise in India lately about the banning of BBC’s India’s Daughter, forcing the house to release it virtually on YouTube (which promptly blocked its viewing, at least in India)....
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Indian Christians on Hit List?
There’s an interesting piece by Julio Riberio, former IPS officer, in the Indian Express today. He calls it the response of a retired public servant “in the twilight of my life”, to the recent steps...
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The Woman Who Sold Us to Australia
“Virat Kohli has shown time and again that he is capable of great cricket. But a man’s skills can hold only for so long against the malicious influence of an unlucky woman. Think about it: every poor...
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“Slaves Do Not Become Kings, Sir”
From Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which I am re-reading under rather special circumstances: “Out of my dear love for you, Stephen, I have traced the smoke of burning cities and...
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Squashing Society’s Advancing Rot
A few months back, an online acquaintance [“a handsome genius of an online acquaintance”, he wishes you to know] very generously pointed his social network to a fantastic page on Facebook. And by...
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Evolutionary Babel
According to the New Scientist (and other publications too, I’m sure), Quentin Atkinson of the University of Auckland in New Zealand has come up with the rather interesting theory that all modern...
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The Great Indian Price Con
[Much like the Flipkart Pricing Con, only with medicines.] Over the years, as the noonday demon sank its subtle claws deeper into me, I began to gradually go off the current events grid. I began...
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Quietly Pressing the Flower Button
During the election that brought Trinamool Congress to power in Bengal, the whispered slogan amongst former Left Front sympathisers (and defecting cadres) was “Chupchaap fuley chhap”; quietly press...
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“The 21st Century Gold Rush”
This is a piece by Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie in the Highliner. I recommend reading it in full, right down to the credits page, because while the story details human monstrosity in human...
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