“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be […]
Posts Tagged ‘india’
India Shining ??
Posted: 19th January 2013 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: angry, apathy, clothes, daughter, future, girl, guy, india, legs, male, misogyny, mother, progress, rajdhani, rape, self-defence, sister, soni sori, sunitha krishnan, taxi, women
I was travelling in Europe for 3.5 months and the main news I came home to was a brutal gang rape in Delhi that shook the conscience of a Nation- Or so I thought. Sadly I was mistaken. Throughout my travels I had been extolling the virtue of the average Indian. That despite seemingly insurmountable […]
Anna Hazare-The Man with a mission
Posted: 7th April 2011 by aseem.ace in OpinionsTags: 2011, anna, April, bill, biography, corruption, court, delhi, expert, government, hazare, india, information, jan, jantar, lok, manmohan, mantar, minister, ombudsman, pal, prime, ralegan, right, RTI, siddhi, supreme, swami, vivekananda
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. -Karl Kraus In a country that has been ravaged with corruption to an extent as in India a single man has sparked hope and provided inspiration to multitudes who had until […]
The Sachin I know- by Harsha Bhogle(a 2009 article)
Posted: 1st April 2011 by aseem.ace in OpinionsTags: ajit, allan, batting, bowlers, century, collins, cronje, dire, distracted, donald, ethic, glasses, Hansie, harsha bhogle, india, interview, kenya, knopfler, mark, match, sachin, starry, stars, tendulkar, wealth, won, work
Sachin Tendulkar may have inspired others to write poetry but he batted in robust prose. Not for him the tenderness and fragility of the poet, the excitement of a leaf fluttering in a gentle breeze. No. Tendulkar is about a plantation standing up to the typhoon, the skyscraper that stands tall, the cannon that booms. […]
Lutyens Mughal Gardens
Posted: 19th February 2011 by Aditya Mahajan in Opinions, Reviews, ThoughtsTags: cp, delhi, garden, india, mughal gardens, president
I had been long planning to visit the enigmatic Mughal gardens. The Mughal gardens are in the heart of New Delhi and adjoining the iconic Rashtrapati Bhavan. They open only for the month of Feb and March to the public. A few points that would be of concern to you are as follows: there is […]