Weekend Musings

There was ‘Breaking News’ yesterday, of a young Odisha journalist dying due to drowning while ‘covering live’ the rescue operation of a tusker stuck in the Mahanadi. Ironically, Arindam Das,...

Whoever I meet or speak to on the phone nowadays waxes eloquent on the need to be happy, to live one’s life to the full, be content, identify needs and...

The big screen vs. small screen debate has been raging for the past two years now. The year 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic engulfed the whole world, proved to be...

The untimely death of TV actor Sidharth Shukla at the age of 40 sent shockwaves across the country this week. It is sure to have rattled men and women in...

On the eve of the 75th Independence Day, my mind goes back to 2014 when in his first Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister...

I have not been watching events at the Tokyo Olympics on TV but closely enough to know who has won and who lost. Of course, when India is involved, my...

For some strange reason, growing old and being spiritual is considered synonymous in our society. Being otherwise is almost a crime. ‘Old and spiritual’ is acceptable but ‘old and unspiritual...

This is too much too soon. First, Mandira Bedi was the target for daring to defy social norms at her husband’s death and now it is actress Shilpa Shetty, whose...

All around me, I see single women struggling to manage their finances. They are single by choice, divorced, separated or widowed. Whatever their status, they don’t know ‘F’ of finance....

The pandemic has levelled all differences and divides of class, caste wealth, haves, have nots, the marginalised, bigots, believers, rebels, peacemakers, doers and non-doers, naukars and maliks, politicians, naysayers and...