What a journey! 500 articles! And what a day to accomplish this! Today, my second book उत्थिष्ठ भारत goes public! It’s been more than 2 years since I started this website. Many readers claim that I have evolved. Evolved as a person, and as a writer. I often wonder, what evolution really means? Evolution is after-all, a daring concept to accept. Despite all of the evidence, the actual mechanics of evolution are completely unobservable. Continue reading
2 million years ago, few apes met to discover fire. An hour passed. The friction was working out fine. Oxygen was abundant. There came a small spark! Things were warming up. The apes started to enjoy it, when suddenly a bell rang. It was time for them to invent the wheel! These apes were asked to make the remaining fire on the next day. 
I was once a defiant, stubborn, questioning and reckless young boy. At a very young age I started to decipher the questions of right and wrong, moral and immoral. Around the same time, I noticed a poster in my room, which was there for long in a corner where my mother used to perform her daily puja. It was a saffron clad portrait of Swami Vivekananda. The poster had a few messages by Swamiji. One of them read- “Strength is life, weakness is death“. 
This is the story of the 300,000 workers of Mumbai’s textile mills, most of whom lost their jobs. It was during early 1980s, over 125 years since these mills shaped the city of Mumbai, when the mill owners deemed these mills unprofitable declined the workers’ wages. The workers had no choice but to call for strike, which lasted for 18 months. The strike collapsed, and the once called Manchester of the East, the city of Mumbai and it’s people were changed forever! 
In popular belief, democracy is about positive practices: freedom, justice, equality. The democratic processes take us closer to those goals. I have 
Sodexo is a French MNC and one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world. With about 4 lakh employees, representing 130 nationalities, they earned revenues of 15.3 billion euros last year! In India they issue food coupons to employees through various companies and firms, who offer it in their compensation packages. They are in news, since recently retail stores across the country suddenly stopped accepting these coupons. 
I had once 
I had taken a break from being a political geek for a while. However, I couldn’t help but closely follow the 
Today is the death anniversary of one of the greatest sons of this land. Vikram Sarabhai- the Father of the Indian space program, the innovator, the industrialist and the visionary. He was the man who started the Physical Research Laboratory, the Indian Space Research Organization and Indian Institute of Management. 
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