It was a dark era of dictatorship in the history of independent India with not one but two dictators running the country for full two and a half years from 1975 to 1977. It was only courtesy their wrongly (for them!) judged election timings in early 1978 that they declared and very badly (good for [...]
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Music Producers and Their Music Search
Music producers are out for their music search everywhere, every time. It became clear to me as the celebrity musician Rajesh Roshan caught hold of the three of us the very same night. Rajesh Roshan My search spies were named Manjit and Prem. Prem was a good flautist. As we were coming back to the [...]
Government Politics: A Dollar Diplomacy
Government politics is just a dollar diplomacy. I am talking of the governments all over the world, dollar only representing the strongest of them all. Once as I was sleeping inside my tent, my sleep got disturbed by some shouting voices outside the tent, saying – “Who is there inside the tent?” I shouted back [...]
The Real Definition of Politics: My Disillusionment
I came to know the real definition of politics as I reached Gorakhpur and met Dhirendra Majumdar there at his place. “What are you doing now as you still are out and not been arrested yet?” – I asked the stout looking man walking at a fast pace as we were taking our after-dinner walk [...]
The Gandhi’s: Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi
Thinking so about all the Gandhi’s – the real great Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and now Sanjay Gandhi to whom the greatness had been offered in a silver plate by his mother overnight – I was packing my bag when an ashram inmate came to me and spoke his heart out… “You came to a [...]
Indira Gandhi and Her Proclamation of Emergency in 1975
I was packing my bag. Those were the days when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had proclaimed a state of emergency in India. It was on 26th of June 1975 when we came to know that our basic human rights had been suspended for an indefinite period of time. On 29th of June, the [...]
Youth Violence versus Political Violence
There was another incident of youth violence that I will never be able to forget all through my life as it made me witness someone who could easily curb it without turning violent himself. He was one of the real teachers I had in my life though I never spoke a single word to him. [...]
Real Clear Politics: A Misnomer
Can there be anything on earth that could genuinely be called the real clear politics in the true sense of it? I wonder about the name adopted by this Chicago-based political news aggregator. How could this name ever strike his mind? Isn’t it a misnomer? Can politics ever be clear or even real as such? [...]
