The ride to success of an illiterate youth from Bihar, who launched a radio station and promoted social messages on polio, AIDS and other issues but was arrested for illegally running it, has found place in school textbooks! The story of Raghav and his ‘Raghav Radio’ has been published by the NCERT in its book ‘Bharat Mein Samajik Parivartan Evam Vikas’ (Social change and development in India) for Class 12! Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Goopy will sing no more!
With the sad demise of Tapen Chatterjee, an era in Bengali cinema has come to an end. Tapen was famous for playing the role of Goopy Gyne in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy-Bagha trilogy for children. The Goopy Bagha era had spelled magic on Bengali kids, more than what Harry Potter ever did to kids worldwide. Generation after generation, Bengali kids breathe and dance to the songs of Goopy and Bagha. While Tapen played Goopy the singer, Rabi Ghosh played Bagha, the drummer; and they set out in the magical-musical world of ghosts and kings. Continue reading
Ganga washed away by our sins
Why do Hindus put all their sins, filths, ashes and even the carcasses of his pets in the water of Ganga for getting easy salvation? Why was river Ganga given the divine power absolve sins of all humans? Well, the Gods must be crazy. Didn’t the Gods know, that man’s sin will increase exponentially and one day will come that Ganga will not be able to take it any more? Didn’t he foresee that one day Ganges and many other rivers will be washed away by human sin? Continue reading
My letter to Dr. Manmohan Singh
Dear Sir
Sir, my hearty congratulations on the completion of one year of your second term as the PM of this great country. It was really generous of you to address the press on this occasion, last Monday. You discussed your government’s performance in its first year, including your plans on the Kashmir issue. But sir, this was the first time in three long years and only the second in your six long years in office that you have subject yourself to open scrutiny by the media. Your interviews to Indian media have been very few, while you have been quite generous with the foreign media. For a government that speaks of the Right to Information era in this country, frankly, that’s a bad record. Continue reading
Food crisis and national media
Recently our Prime Minister declared that we will soon be able to stabilize the food prices. With inflation still hovering around the same 17%, we are far from stable. I don’t deny the possibility of this turning into reality, as we can hope for favorable rains this year, but the relaxed media scares me. Continue reading
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 