By Ananya Guha Considering America has a history of about 240 years and Great Britain of course almost since primordial times an independence of 69 years, perhaps is still a situation which is nascent. But with every August 15th there are murmurs, as to how the nation has ‘ progressed […]
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Vigilance is a Firm Hand
By Mark Antony Rossi I like to keep score. But I’m often surprised when I find the good people outnumber the bad people and still evil prevails. How is this possible? Why do bad things happen especially to good people? The cynic cries in the street “only the good die […]
Standing up for Comedy: Funny Bones of Kerala
By George Vivian Paul “Why don’t you guys sit down?”, is what was heard after I spent almost an hour explaining Stand up comedy to my relatives in Ernakulam. Kerala is yet evolve into a robust scene for stand up comedy, but has immense potential and a mature audience which […]
Understanding Vs Misunderstanding
By Shobha Diwakar There often comes a challenge in life when you stand at crossroads wondering which road to take, which reminds me of Robert Frost’s very apt poem, The Road Not Taken. Many times, you are confused and your mind seems to block your personal responses to a certain problem […]
Uninformed, Unarmed, and Under Fire
By Mark Antony Rossi Aldous Huxley warned us of science and technology outpacing ethics and morality. The latest project in that category, The Human Genome Project, is a classic case in point. Billed as humankind’s most ambitious and beneficial scientific endeavor ever undertaken, The Human Genome Project’s incredible mission is […]
Child Soldiers of the West
By Mark Antony Rossi “The future belongs to the youth” is an old adage proven beneficial to fascist regimesong to the aiming to convert the most impressionable members of a population to their sinister agenda. Centuries ago evil Japanese Ninja clans raised their young in training schools to become professional […]
Barking Dogs Seldom Bite
By Shobha Diwakar I suppose everyone is quite familiar with this idiom or proverb, call it whatever you will. Everywhere you hop around, I mean walk down or up the road, and you find barks thrashing your ears from all around. You look to the left, then to the right, […]
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
By Mark Antony Rossi The notion of communion with nature declined steadily moments after the first sizeable city was founded upon cleared forestland, slaughtered buffaloes and Native Americans nearly extinguished in the crossfire of broken treaties and mad gold rushes. “Taming the Wild Frontier” is an ugly misnomer invented to […]
My Word Is Law
By Shobha Diwakar Men, men, men; God created them in his own image I have heard and the tender Eve from his raw bone! only if he had not done so, poor Eve would have suffered less but then stories are stories and mythology mere mythology, either you believe in […]
The Foolishness of Forever
By Mark Antony Rossi Despite age-old arguments Science and Religion are not incompatible but incredibly out of synchronicity in the expansive realm and reality of human existence. Each historical force pushes and pulls people to be more than flesh and bone without ever intelligently explaining the vast ramifications of being […]