It was rather unusual of me to watch Television early in the morning. But we had guests and one of their boys had left the screen on. I see the image of a young man, killed by religious fundamentalists, with a single stab into the heart. A valuable life, snuffed out, just like that. My […]
Category: Rational ruminations
Pay the Parking Fee- and exist- though it is not fair.
I sat, just like that. My elder one, Riya sat, just like that. The younger one, Diya, squirmed and wrung her hands, her face worried. She was facing an existential conundrum. You see- we were in the outskirts of a forest, somewhere in the Western Ghats, and we sat by the side of the river […]
Ban this book- and this research (a pure nationalist plea)
“They (Lalji and Thankaraj) did not want to be part of a study that suggested a major west Eurasian incursion into India ……would be politically explosive. However, we knew from our genetic studies that a real and profound mixture between two different populations had occurred and made a contribution to the ancestry of almost every […]
A prick through the jeans.
I was somewhere. Deep inside Indian territory, travelling. We were a few newly minted doctors. Middle class in India means you are among the top five in the country in purchasing power. You basically know that a world exists outside. External to your tightening circle of misery. The deep India that I refer, is part […]
Beliefs, Evolution and all that- We have got it upside down:
A communist legislator, in Kerala, recently told publicly that he has not given vaccines to his children. He added that ‘he was forced to support’ the recent MR vaccination drive in the state, part of a WHO programme aimed at eradicating measles and rubella. At the time of saying this, his own government was desperately […]