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Circumstances create alternatives, not choices. Our history has examples galore where dark-horses or those not even in the reckoning have turned up as alternatives. Comforted, I (and other commoners like me) am not over-worried about finding an alternative to Prime

I never had any issue with the content of our history textbooks as I had no knowledge that our history had a much larger canvas painted upon by many individuals and institutions. Naïve it may sound, I always thought I am indebted only to those who find mention in my

During the small talks , one day, he innocently asked me as to why didn’t Indians marry Africans. George’s was a very simple observation but, as I started knowing the country and its people better, I realized there was much more seriousness to it.

As a returning Lucknowite, who was away for thirty-four years, I was at loss, initially, as to how to negotiate the ways of the city. It dawned on me, later, that the salt-n-pepper beard and moustache I sport need to be leveraged if I want to survive the indiscipline in the city.

India got rid of the British, the French and the Portuguese but created another set of masters i.e., the politicians who have built and curated a political eco-system that has neutered the citizenry for all practical purposes. If, as an exception, the heat continues on these politicians,

One conversation that stayed with me was when she seriously wanted to research if the God was black or white or brown in appearance. As I started looking forward to meeting her, she disappeared. Simply vanished. Do I still owe people an explanation for my grouse against