Recently I saw a film in which the woman proposes to the man. It was a hit scene in that movie. In movies, it happens occasionally, nowadays. We get a thrill. This is nothing but a gut reaction to the novel. It is sensational, only because what happens is usually the reverse, But I think […]
Category: Rational ruminations
The Dragon under the surface
The Gombe War is famous. It is also known as the “Four-Year War” of Gombe, and lasted from 1974 to 1978. It was a violent conflict between two communities in Gombe, in Tanzania. They were a single, close-knit community. Any one member of the group couldn’t have survived without the group. They shared food, and were united under […]
The Economics and Politics of MONOGAMY.
I was going through the morning newspaper. The debate about the uniform civil code was on in full swing. Lot of activists accused the Muslims of wanting to continue having four wives. Progressive Muslims formed at the mouth and reminded all about the terrible row many sadhus and traditionalist Hindus at that time made when […]
Notes and Receipts- and the serrated edge of the Coin -A brief history of money
After an hour of standing in the queue, I got it. A coloured slip of paper. Mahatma Gandhi grinned purplishly from it. The Rupee symbol and the number ‘2000’ featured prominently. This was one of those things which people would die for. If not for one, many might, for a stack of them. On Gandhi’s […]
The Black money that works in mysterious ways:
Personally, I have to continue cautious support to Modi’s initiative. But one probably has to watch and wait for the full process to unfold. As such, unaccounted money is an evil. It is a continuing process, which makes many of us, unwitting participants in a criminal process. Anyone who has had opportunity to deal with […]