A handful of thoughts

My India is a huge rosewood tree with several Indias sitting on its branches. One of these Indias, the India of Bengal, rises to a new year, every poila boishakh. This new year comes around the 14th or 15th of April; about the time when the sun starts baking and melting the asphalt on the road […]

Secularism in India as it stands now at the hands of politicians, commoners and terrorists, is a much debated and sensitive topic. But if we cast a thoughtful look backwards in time, we’ll see that India alone has been the breeding ground for three religions - Hinduisim, Buddhism and Jainism. Interestingly, Buddhism and Jainism came […]