Society and Life

The word freedom has its own significance. Independence is both a freedom and responsibility. It is freedom to choose what we want to do and concurrently responsibility to act in the larger interest of society and the nation. It is being…

In this fast-moving world, we hardly care about the word freedom anymore. People are running behind money and they forget what it costs India to be a free nation. The sacrifices our brave hearts did for the country. We usually don’t give…

Girish Karnad was one of modern India’s greatest cultural icons, an accomplished actor, a path breaking director, a clearheaded & erudite thinker, a public intellectual and activist and above all the most extraordinarily gifted…

The Indian Constitution in Part Three has incorporated many Fundamental Rights which, if taken away arbitrarily by the state can be challenged in High Court & Supreme Court. These were hugely influenced by The Magna Carta (1215) &…

India is celebrating the 75th year of Independence since 15th August 2021, as a year long festival called ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. It is not only a year to rejoice over achievements of free India in last 75 years, but also to infuse new…

My chance meeting with PM Indira Gandhi at Charbatia military base as a kid It is worth recounting my experience of staying inside an army camp location when a full-fledged war broke out between India and Pakistan in December 1971. I…

He was an oddball in the Calcutta of 60s, teeming with anarchists, Trotskyites, Mao devotees and loonies believing in flat earth. The intellectual to population ratio was high even by the usual Bengali standards. Yet he stood out,…

Nineteenth century Odisha had a flourishing industrial base. The weaving of cotton cloths, silk, brass, metal, filigree & leather constituted the core of Orissa’s rural industry. Sadly, they had all vanished due to the wanton neglect…

Like the movie theater industry, very few businesses saw the losses during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Movie theaters took a severe hit with the shutdowns, ban, and hesitation over public gatherings. With that came the magnanimous rise of…

Simon de Beauvoir, the French philosopher wrote in her seminal book ‘The Second Sex’’ (1949): ‘You are not born a woman, you become one’, to underline the fact that gender distinction is the fundamental source of women’s oppression.,…