When 2.4 million of our countrymen in Assam are living on streets with no roof over their heads, we must have a reason to lose our sleep, a reason to participate – a reason beyond the fact that a writer requests you to do so. If you are planning to transfer funds for the flood victims, your early decision will help us to increase the number of sheets we are buying and thereby ensure more relief. Please contribute 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25 or more tarpaulin sheets. Read my latest column in the-NRI to know more.
Category Archives: Personal
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Sweat and glory
Sweat has always been a part of popular poetry and culture. Blood, Sweat and tears are terms used by writers across cultures to depict struggle, bravery and revolution. Sweat also finds its place in literature describing physical beauty. The glitter of sweat droplets on a female body, or the shining muscles of a male body in its own sweat, are beautifying tools used by authors across the world. Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Personal, Philosophy, Television
Long Live Wisdom!
“To provide the most educative and enlightening material. To promote right thinking and Living among people. To strengthen the moral fibre of the society. To help acquire and sustain knowledge, success, health and happiness.” – this is the Mission Statement of Wisdom Magazine, a low-priced magazine for kids (and adults like me). Wisdom was founded in 1973, and since then edited by Dr. K V Govinda Rao, until recently, when the visionary left us. Continue reading
Death, mystery, Netaji
The alleged death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, has long been a subject of dispute. There has been three Government sponsored commissions and numerous private investigations to find out if he died of the crash or survived it. The last commission concluded in its report in May 2006, that Bose’s death was staged to facilitate an escape to the USSR, a report which was immediately discarded by the government. Continue reading
For the glory of the cause!
“When death knocks the door, what does a man do?”- a question addressed in numerous works of fiction and cinema. But life is no fiction. However, real events can surpass the levels which even the best fictional works can’t dare to reach. In the year 1930, Bhagat Singh’s father had submitted a mercy petition to the British government. Bhagat Singh’s reply to his father was disillusioning. What, however, sends further shivers down the spine is reading the petition Bhagat Singh himself filed next. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Personal, Philosophy, Sankalp
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 
