Reflections from the Village Bard
This is about the plight of the untouchables in India and elsewhere who are slowly gaining their rights that have been denied them for centuries by the upper caste Brahmins and what the future holds for them. There was a time when the Hindus stratified their society based on the trade the people were involved…
Bhagat Singh was an Indian revolutionary socialist who was influential in the Indian independence movement. Born into a Jat Punjabi Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj, he studied European revolutionary movements as a teenager and was attracted to anarchist and Marxist ideologies. He worked with several…
One thing that is sure in life is getting old at least for most of humanity. Some look forward to it and start preparing for it when they are young. It means you must have the financial security to see you through all your needs in old age that may be mostly health related…
Why do we make our own demons The mankind suffers from the demons it creates on its own and passes the blame on a religious book or edict that creates numerous problems like intolerance, blind beliefs and hatred that cause violence against those who are different. If mankind wants to live in peace…
Finicky birds do not sit in my decent nest I usually write about serious social issues but today I am in the mood of writing about finicky birds that will put you in a lighter mood of laughing and enjoying the caprices of birds. One day I decided to make a bird nest to put…
I have thought about writing and discussing the issue of serious mental health problems that bedevil so many people in our society due to many reasons and look into the problems so many people face and how they try to cope with them. In our neighborhood lived a family we knew quite well.…
All parents feel the empty nest syndrum We all face the empty nest syndrome in our life when the children grow up and leave to make a new life for themselves somewhere. We learn to cope with the empty nest as best as we can because it is inevitable that children leave one day.…
Rare dolphins of India on the verge of extinction Animal protection and their welfare does not rate very high in many countries where poachers and legal hunters are decimating their numbers. This looks at the river dolphins that have been poached to extinction but many other animals face the same tragedy everyday. We need to…
Amazing bush craft Some people mistakenly think that a tropical forest somewhere can make for a nice adventure for hunting, fishing and making shelter to enjoy nature. A forest can be a…
Jatindra Nath Mukherjee was a freedom fighter Jatindra Nath Mukherjee was the principal leader of the Yugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal. Having met the German Crown-Prince in Calcutta shortly before World War I,…