She was angry and afraid of her predicament. She felt that life had served her a raw deal. It was unfair, she deserved better. She was too good to find herself in this position. She spoke about it with her family and her friends. Some of them were sympathetic, they offered her their shoulders to … Continue reading Addicted to the T →

Few days back, a video clip went viral on social media, where a European traveling in a plane filmed his co-passenger eating food with her bare hands (without knives and forks) and said that it was gross to do so. As usual, the comments section was quickly filled with opinion about the cultured and acceptable … Continue reading The Maryada Conundrum →

The joke landed but only just. Part of the crowd laughed a bit and the rest smiled; amused with the clever wordplay but annoyed with the undertone. There was this unmistakable sense of smug superiority underneath the jovial demeanor of the performer. Intellectual racism; is when the speaker assumes and awards oneself a higher moral … Continue reading Strip down and step down..! →

Conflicts of all sorts are manufactured. Whether it is direct confrontation between two nations, or economic one-upmanship between large corporations or the covert assault of the ambiguous virus on the global population, everything is man-made. An average person has little or no control over these, it is sheer luck whether one survives or falls victim … Continue reading Conflict and Art →