What follows is an unflattering critique of America’s Democratic Party from one of its own. The party’s primary problems (no pun intended) sabotage its wannabe image as the Party of Change. What change? It appears to be run by well meaning if impotent, insulated and financially settled yuppies who freeze up in the […]
A Counter Culture of Courage
When Madhavi Kapoor wanted to sell her flat in Pune and found that her efforts were being thwarted because her buyer was a Muslim, she did some thing unusual. Instead of humming and hawing to her buyer and fobbing him off with vague answers and then identifying another buyer, she took on the housing society […]
From a Train Journey
The first time I boarded a train was in 1965 to travel from Delhi to Howrah. The train in question was the Toofan Mail as it was then called and unlike today, where the train still remains a shadow of its former self, in those days it was still in spurts able to run like […]
Is the Indian System Slow and Unresponsive ?
The Indian Express in its op-ed column of Dec 01 informs that the Prime Minister in a recent speech delivered on November 29th has lamented that our system doesn’t value time and that it is one weakness that worries him a great deal. The Prime Minister isn’t completely correct. Witness the manner and speed in […]
India’s Cancer Patients : Dying a Thousand Deaths
In spite of the advance of medical sciences in many fields , cancer is an area where in spite of a lot of progress , things haven’t changed much on the ground. The patient still usually has to go through a prolonged treatment and at the end of which there is nothing called a cure […]