The Tagore and the Ray that Bengal encashes so very often as evidence of its “riches,” would have lived and died nameless if they subscribed to the ideologies fueling the state since 2011. After a recent visit to the state where I spent the first 21 years of my life and which is currently heading… Continue reading Bengal’s lose-lose election
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IndBiz
For the period of November 2017 to August 2020, I found it difficult to explain what work I was doing for there was no way to share it. Well, here it is now. Launched in December 2020, the Government of India's latest foreign trade and investment promotion platform, helmed by the Ministry of External Affairs.… Continue reading IndBiz
Secular, the most dreaded ‘S’ word in India
‘Secularism’ has officially become a dirty word in India. In a country that is lost and aching, people are slipping deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit of hate and division. Robbed of our aspirations and opportunities or maybe just stoking our deep-seated bigotry, we have become so engrossed in our recreational hate that we… Continue reading Secular, the most dreaded ‘S’ word in India
The trouble with deification
One of my tattoos quotes a phrase from Virgil’s Aeneid - "Sic itur ad Astra" (Thus one journeys to the stars). Spoken by Apollo, addressing Aeneas’ son Ascanius as he goes to war, the words embody a well-known practice of hero-worshipping and promising fortune in this life or the next in exchange for hard labor… Continue reading The trouble with deification
The human cost of a pandemic
An economy can do without a writer like myself, or a software engineer and such, but it just cannot do without industrial labourers, manufacturers, farmers, construction workers, etc.
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