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What if the life suddenly comes to a full stop?
Can you imagine in your wildest of dreams that if after one fine night you don’t wake up to see the upcoming day, how life would be like for your loved ones? And if that misfortune happens in reality, without any prior intimation, due to any reason, how will the world around you change in…
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A world full of urban “ganwars”!
Ganwar (गंवार) is a Hindi word, which literally refers to the person living in villages. But, often, it is used in the negative sense meaning someone who is illiterate, ill-mannered and foolish! But, I often think that the actual गंवार is far better than the people living in the urban areas in many dimensions. The…
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Is nature a dustbin or a dumpyard of our activities?
The case of severe air pollution Among all activities that we do all day long in our homes, we try to keep things in order and places tidy. We arrange our rooms, our clothes, our food etc etc., because we care about these things. We decorate places to improve their aesthetic beauty. But, what is…
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The world from the perspective of a “light-bearer” in a wedding procession
We often see the world from our own perspectives, infact we become used to it. Our upbringing, our values, our choices, our likings etc. influence our understanding of the world and of the things around us. But, if even for a short while we can see the world from the perspective of others, it can…
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Bottom-up approach to the human rights!
Source: United Nations website Yesterday, on 10th December, it was the International Human Rights Day. The theme chosen by the United Nations this year was- “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials”. There was a beautiful conference organized by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) at Bharat Mandapam to commemorate the occasion. The Chief Guest, the Hon’ble…
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The development that we need before all developments!
We need different kinds of developments to make our nation developed like infrastructure development, industrial development, environmental development, social development etc. But, often in this discussion, one thing we tend to overlook is this- development for whom? For the people obviously! Then, why do we forget the basic and core element of the studies of…
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The fragile connection between life and death- a different perspective!
What is the single most common desire that is present amongst all the living beings in the world, including human beings and other animal species? It is nothing else than the basic innate “desire to live life”! Almost nobody who is born in this world wants to die before living his/her own life to the…
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The fading boundary between real and fake!
Yesterday I was listening to the AI-generated Kishor Kumar version of “Saiyaara song” and if you would just close your eyes and listen to the song, I bet you couldn’t make out whether this is an AI-generated fake version or is it the real legen…(wait for it)…dary Kishor Kumar singing! The boundaries have faded to…
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1990s- The Golden age of pop songs in India
You may have different tastes in music- some love very old Bollywood songs, some love patriotic songs, some like the sad songs of the 1970s and 1980s era, some like the 1990s Bollywood songs filmed at exotic locations in India and abroad, some like the new-age 2000s music with a break from the 1990s songs,…
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