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The Dilemma of life ......................

He could not remember anything………….Everything was hazy………….Where was he? All he could figure out was that it seemed like he was in a hospital. The only people he saw were the ones in white who breezed in and out time to time to check on his drips and administer other medication. The faces were unclear as his eyes were not able to focus. His lips felt dry. Trying to remember anything was giving him a headache. So he just slipped back into blissful sleep. Dr. Krishna breezed into the ICU ward for his morning rounds. He wound his way through the ward and checked the records for each patient and discussed the cases with the junior doctors and nurses accompanying him. He reached the bed No.7 where the patient was in a deep induced sleep. The man was wheeled in to the hospital in a very bad condition, found on the roadside, perhaps left to die. It looked like a hit and run case and the police were yet to identify him and hence there was no family keeping guard as in the other cases. They

Two States or Two Families ??????????????

Recently I watched the movie Two States and it stirred me enough to write this blog as I have been thinking about this topic for quite some time. I think this movie was a hit since it was a story that has been told and re-told umpteen number of times, so known to all of us. Two States has happened to most of us, all of us have those few people in our life to whom this happened. Luckily though, as in the case of two states, many are still leading a happily married life. What prompted me to write this post was the fact that in India, it is not really Two States, but Two Families………What I mean to say is that even though you go in for an arranged marriage and marry someone whom your parents chose, from the same caste, community even then this story happens, only slightly twisted. Two States talked about how the couple fell in love and fought to bridge the North-South divide and bring the two families together so they could get married. In the case of most other arranged marriages the

From the perspective of a Aam Admi

I am a person who has always loved my freedom and independence. So it is only a given that I value the fact that I was born in an independent India, more importantly a democratic one. I am sure we all do. The truth though is that we hardly ever acknowledge our rights as a citizen of a democratic country when it implies a responsibility on our side, but always quote it when we want to assert our own views on others. Our idea of democracy is being able to do what we want, when we want, where we want, even if it troubles others. Since independence the state of democracy in this country has been such a way that most of us the so called Aam Admi have taken an indifferent approach to democracy and governance as a whole. We have accepted that this is the way to be and that nothing or no one can change that. So when we want any of our work done we pay a bribe without a second thought. It is now as good as paying taxes. Most of the times we feel that it is a waste of our time to go and vote s