Society and Life

Ernest Hemingway wrote in the Oldman and The Sea(1952) : Why do old men get up early? Perhaps to have a longer day! He had not bargained for Netflix and Amazon , which has made even the oldies baying for a longer night, binge watching…

On the first floor of my parent’s house is a locked room, beige on the outside and yellow-ochre inside. It’s unlocked only when we visit —  ma says she never lets anyone use the room, or its attached bath, even when the house is…

I remember my two plants in Pune which never came out of their owner-induced coma. The Gerbera only opened up its nursery-gifted buds and died right after I managed to sprinkle some water on its pink flowers and relished the clichéd shot…

Recent cyclone (Amphan), which luckily spared Odisha coast, reminds me of previous devastating cyclones of last year (Fani) or the other deadly super cyclone which happened 20 years back. The Super Cyclone of October' 1999 was the most…

I had the good fortune of watching Satyajit Ray introducing Akira Kurosewa in the International Film Festival on 3rd Jan 1977 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, where his iconic film Dersu Uzala was being screened.. Satyajit introduced him as…

COVID19 has led us to a revolution where all our wealth that we were proud of has no value, all the social contacts that we were fond of has no value. This has literally shattered us to an extent that we could never have imagined of. The…

Arthur Lewis, the Nobel laureate, pioneered a Development model in 1954, in which he suggested that disguisedly employed workers in the subsistence agricultural sector should be transferred to industries in urban areas, to improve their…

Tom Hanks called him a' national treasure'. Irrfan is possibly the most versatile actor that we had. For me Lunch Box was his most defining movie , most subtle and aesthetically crafted. He was the perfect Bengali Professor in Namesake,…

Every time Mankind thinks that it has become powerful enough to claim mastery over Nature, and declare independence from the Rule of God, Nature gives a tight slap on the face of Mankind. We should remain human and we should refrain from…

The 21 day lockdown announced by the Prime Minister due to outbreak of COVID 19 is the biggest draconian measure taken by any government so far, far exceeding demonetization. Its impact is not merely confined to possible economic recession…