When I moved my razor blade across the expanse above my upper lip today morning, my mind flew, as minds occasionally do, to a time when this procedure was not needed. I used to apply an oil to make my moustache grow. That was the time I became a voluntary prisoner in a concentration camp- […]
Category: Rational ruminations
Ideology- Tales that thrill- and kill
A venerable old official sleeps at a meeting. The Dictator orders him killed. It is interesting to think that the Dictator was originally part of a plan for the salvation of all mankind- a plan for an equal and just society. Let us go back a few years. At a meeting to felicitate Stalin, as […]
Why Nationalism is like Money
-Both are valuable and essential. Have doubts?- ask a bankrupt man. Or ask a Palestinian, a refugee from Syria lurking on international borders or a hemi-nation in a warring region of Africa. -One can inherit it. If we have benefitted from the status quo, we can have too much of either. -An excess can lead […]
Towards a Rational Nationalism.
Yesterday I heard it again- ‘Our country is going to the dogs’. I looked outside. Many innocent members of the canine species looked back amiably. Some middle class Malayalees hurried along the road, looking focussed. Scores of construction workers from various corners of the country were building a Metro Rail track on which I and […]
Terror- A Toxic Bubble:
I didn’t sleep well the next day also. Sometimes, these dreams were really disturbing. Getting into a suicide driver’s mind was a nightmare. I mean- a bad dream is a nightmare, right? Thank you- I thought so. But was there some reality to these sleep time journeys of mine? The screams. Then the thuds. The […]