Mumbai - Will you embrace me?
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About 4 months back I moved to Mumbai with a mix of dreams and trepidation in my heart. There was a sense of Deja Vu, after all, it's the 2nd time in 6 years that I am trying my luck in the Maximum City. The first time round, it was the summer of 2005 - I had moved to Mumbai to join a business news channel, my wife and daughter were to join me as soon as I 'settled down' and made suitable arrangements for them. Very soon I realised that movements in stock prices, mergers & acquisitions, and business news in general failed to excite me in any manner whatsoever. Nevertheless, there was a feeling that if I gave it time, I would be able to develop the necessary amount of interest to keep me going. So I went on with the business of life, with hope....
CWG: Giving our workers the shabby treatment
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Delhi may yet host the 'best Commonwealth Games' ever, and Delhi may have taken the first steps to become a 'world-class' city, that it surely must. However, there is nothing world-class in the way we treated the workers who built these 'world-class' stadiums and infrastructure. The Commonwealth Games Village in Delhi is already being touted as better than what the Chinese had on offer. The super-luxury apartments that will house the athletes are on sale at an obnoxiously high starting price of Rs 2.75 crore! Just outside the Village, on the main road that leads up to the Village, people displaced by the flood waters of the Yamuna have no option but to stay in tents with their entire families - and all their belongings. "But they had no business staying in the flood plains to begin with! It is unfortunate no doubt, but then they....
I fear for her
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How long will the terror groups continue to thrive in India? They will continue to succeed as long as we fail to attach a premium to human life-a premium that every human life deserves. Every human life-irrespective of the class or geographical location that he or she belongs to. We need to ask ourselves: is it time we stopped being "brave" about repeated terror attacks; is it time we stopped acting as if the next terror attack will happen, but will not affect me/my family? In fact, It's time for each and every one of us to be scared. We need to be scared because the State, it seems, can't protect us. We need to be scared because shopping malls and cinema houses will continue to use archaic methods to screen people entering them, thus making them soft and easy targets for terror attacks. We....
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