Author: admin
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BROTHER NEEM
# chhotebhai Brother Neem You must be a hundred years old Standing sentinel before our ancestral home. My earliest memory of you As a little child Was of fear. You were so big and dense So the servants kept us Children at bay. Snakes could be lurking there. Still I remember The joy of discovery…
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A MOODY NATION
All of us have our moods, individually, and collectively as a nation. India Today, the nation’s leading weekly, has brought out an “Exclusive Mood of the Nation Poll” published in its issue dated 19th February. I am not a number cruncher or a data analyst; but as a writer I like to read between the…
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bilkis bano फैसले
याचिका कर्ता Subhashini Ali से विशेष मुलाकात
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MAY THEY ALL BE ONE
A person’s dying wish is sacred. Jesus’ last desire, when “he raised his eyes to heaven” (Jn 17:1), was “that they may be one like us” (v11) and again “May they all be one” (v21). Jesus’ call to oneness (unity) of his disciples was based on his own deep relationship with the Father. That being…
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GOING…GOING…GONE
My family established its auctioneering business in 1858. It lasted for about 120 years. The Sunday morning auctions were a major source of interest and entertainment. When a bid was nearing completion the hammer would be raised with the solemn intonation “Going, going, gone”. The bid was closed, as an auction cannot go on indefinitely….
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POST MERRIMENT POST MORTEM
It bugs me when people wish me a “Merry Christmas”. It’s worse when it gets corrupted in the Hindi heartland to Marry or even Mary Christmas! Despite the goodwill in the greeting, it annoys me. It indicates that such a person doesn’t really know the meaning of Christmas, or is just blindly following a British…
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IS IT R.I.P. 4 R&P?
Exactly 5 years ago, in December 2018, I had written a piece “Pappu can Dance Wallah”. It was inspired by the 2008 Bollywood song “Pappu Can’t Dance Salaa” from the movie “Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Naa” starring Genelia D’souza (now Deshmukh). For years Rahul Gandhi (RG) had been disparagingly referred to as Pappu (the simpleton)….
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CHRISTMAS RUBBLE
On Sunday 10th December I heard the first reading from Isaiah (40:1-5, 9-11) on freedom from the Babylonian exile. The reference to Babylon reminded me of the foot-tapping Boney M. song “By the Rivers of Babylon”. The music is pulsating, though I’m pretty sure that most people don’t know the meaning, context or even the…
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ANOTHER WICKET (D) DOWN!
In cricketing parlance, once five wickets are down, the tail is exposed. The batters have been exhausted and only the bowlers remain, to put up some resistance. After the fall from grace (pun intended) of Cardinal George Alencherry and Abp Andrews Thazhath of Ernakulam, I had commented that for the Indian hierarchy it was now…
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