What will you do? Guess you could say the signs are pretty obvious. More visits to the doctor for varied reasons. Regular conversations about health with your peers. Increased time reminiscing about days past. Growing list of philosophy tomes consumed. I’m talking of living in the other side of ‘middle-age’…

Over the past weeks and months, I’ve witnessed or been party to several exchanges with friends and family in India. Some snippets below: From a respected, senior corporate professional — “I could be arrested for sharing a post criticizing the vaccine”. An accomplished doctor — “I’m seriously considering moving out…

For decades, Americans have been fed a steady diet of gentle propaganda that is meant to perpetuate the myth of American exceptionalism. That America is the best, the strongest, the brightest, the healthiest, the richest, the fairest, the smartest, the most democratic. The list goes on, and while one can…

If only the pen were actually mightier than the sword, and we could have sent Shashi Tharoor back in time to confront the British Raj. I imagine him deploying his words as a scythe and slashing through the tall grasses of their professed noblesse oblige. Laying bare their craven greed…

What an irony, that the country that regularly produces some of the greatest discoveries and innovations in the sciences, houses the greatest centers of learning, can lay legitimate claim to producing the largest number of Nobel laureates in this arena, also is home to people who believe the world is…

I can barely breathe, I thought The cloth mask slowing my breath As we joined the battle fought To rail against such cruel death They said we were rioters and looters And not just righteous protestors I looked around me to properly gauge The measure of these marchers’ rage Most…

The image is seared in my head. At first glance, it might seem innocuous enough, for what you see is a white man in a police uniform, with what looks like a calm and easy expression on his face, with his hand in his pocket. …

With due apologies to Patrick Henry, but this seems to be the rallying cry for a lot of the citizenry in the country today. Perhaps a bit biased toward those who wear red caps exhorting the country to revert to its previous greatness, before it was corrupted by, you know…

One of the concepts that perplexed me about high school physics was that of Absolute Zero. i.e. the idea that temperatures actually can’t fall below 0 degrees kelvins or negative ~273 degrees Celsius. While on the other end of the scale, there is no seeming upper limit to temperatures with…