Middle age is a time of reflection. One has seen the world changing, understood some decisions one’s parents made and been exasperated by the conventions the next generation is rejecting. I realised about my own middle age seeing the latest season of Koffee with Karan. The show started in 2004…
Grief has a strange way of expressing itself. We realise what somebody meant to us only when they leave. Grief comes rarely like a sharp wound but more like an emptiness within. A realisation of something that we will never have again. The emotions expressed by the general public over…
One of my fondest memories of childhood is the holday we had as a family to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Looking back, I think that trip did a lot to spark my interest in geography, history, and geopolitics. I asked questions like - why does the water look so different here?…
India has been a target of attacks in the Western media and press. If one picks up Reuters, Bloomberg, BBC, The Economist, DW, or Al Jazeera, it would appear that nothing good is happening in India and that it is doomed to fail. Most Indians have started to notice this…
There was a period from around 2017 onwards when Chinese diplomats and spokespersons started answering questions in a very brusque, borderline demeaning way. They were called wolf warriors based on the movie by the same name. This sort of language and demeanour from China became more pronounced when COVID struck…