The Beginning : Understanding the Epic as a Child I just recently read Anand Neelakantan’s Vanara, a very good retelling of the Vaali-Sugreeva tale from Vaali’s perspective and it compelled me to write a few words on my take of Ramayana(for folks who dont know Ramayana, a quick link to…

The argumentative community I grew up in India in somewhat conservative 80s. It was a time of transition as many kids of that generation would tell you. India was at a cusp — still holding onto its socialist past but beginning to hurl forth into the consumerist present. It was a time when…

The renaissance of identity By now, the elections in India have passed , the results dissected and the western media have thrown out their usual monochromatic point of views in the rise of right wing nationalism. In reality though, Modi is riding a wave of aspirations reposed on him by the common man. …

Recently a friend asked me , if he believed elections in India was representation of a true democracy. In the West, quite often than not, Indian election has been advertised as one of the largest democracy in action often marketed under the banner of a “billion votes”. A billion votes…