Will you make a ferocious dog, who had bitten you, your loved pet? Will you make a thief your friend and invite him home? Will you invite a criminal to stay over with you in your house? Will you ask a murderer to watch out for you, day and night? If the answer to these questions is NO, then how can you ask a rape victim to marry the rapist, who torn apart her body, … [Read more...]
He Sells Chocolates, But His Life Story Will Tell You The Secret Of Happiness!
Amidst the sultry afternoons of June, it was common to see people lose their cool, quite a few times during their journey. Everyday thousands like me travelled from Lucknow to Kanpur, worked their energy out at their jobs and then returned back to the capital in the evening. The train took 2 hours to make it from the capital to Kanpur. I preferred to stand near the gate and … [Read more...]
We Went To See A Girl For My Cousin & What My Aunt Did There Was Shocking!
I am a child of a typical Indian arranged marriage. My entire family have had their marriage arranged and so, as it flows, despite of being a fairly-independent and liberal person, I am not considered worthy enough of choosing the right partner and will likely be coerced into an arranged match myself. Talking of arranged marriages, there is one aspect of it, I can never see … [Read more...]
This Father’s Day, Take A Moment, And Think About Our Father Whom We All Have Failed
“He promised me that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.” -Jonathan Safran Foer Father! A Father is a teacher who doesn’t keep us from making mistakes but lets us find our own way. He builds within us the courage to witness and combat all the atrocities of life … [Read more...]
When Asked If He Was Happy, A Poor Rickshaw Puller Sums Up His Miserable Life In One Line
The opportunity to have a conversation with Ravinder, a rickshaw puller based in Ghaziabad, gave me an insight into the life of rickshaw pullers. These are people who ferry us from one place to another in the sun, rain and cold. Ravinder lives with his wife and younger brother, who’s also a rickshaw puller. Their house in a slum on the outskirts of Delhi is a small one room … [Read more...]
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