My recent posts drew a lot of questions from my friends: Would you kiss and fondle in public? Would you like your sister or daughter doing it? Isnt there something called culture? Is anarchy better than organised society? My answer would be a uniform NO. Except for the one about culture. I do think there […]
Category: Journals
Why people fear a kiss?
Ever wondered why many fear a kiss? Why the irresistible urge to police morally? Why do some fear a girl who wants to be educated more than AK 47s? It is more about girls. And women. One argument is that it goes against the strength of the family, the human pair bond, which forms the […]
Why hypernationalism scares me
A few months ago, in Kerala, a group of young men refused to stand up for the national anthem when it was played before starting a movie. They were beaten up and arrested. He was alleged to have posted anti-national slogans against the country. Media judgement, lifetime in shame, court proceedings, jail without bail. Now […]
The quick brown fox and the lazy dog
It was a Saturday evening and I was rushing out of the office to join my family for a quiet evening together. I spied Suresh at his desk, hard at work as usual. Suresh was a highly ambitious colleague who constantly tried to improve himself. “Hello!” I waved to him, and while passing, glanced at […]
The Magic Factor
I looked at Suresh’s nose. It must have been a very shapely nose. But now you could clearly see the outline of the flesh that was transferred from the forehead in two stages to replace the lost tip of the nose. Suresh was a young chief of security in an MNC in the city. He […]