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A Call To Action
This article is from Open Magazine. By V Shoba In North-East Karnataka, the language has a gruff, gravelly texture, as though emanating from its rolling plateaus. Yet, it betrays a vulnerability that...
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In Defence Of Fasting
This article is from Open Magazine. By Shylashri Shankar A few years ago, I did a 10-day Vipassana meditation course in Jaipur. For the uninitiated, Vipassana is Gautama Buddha's mode of meditation....
View ArticleConfessions Of A Divorced Single Mother
If you are a woman, your life is continuously under some sort of a scanner. A mother's every move is viewed in HD. To this you add the fact that you are a divorced single mother, and every person...
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Mama's Boys And Ladies' Seats
There are two major differences between "women's reservation" and "equal opportunity": the man and his mother. Travelling on the Delhi Metro, I discovered the "Ladies Compartment" as well as special...
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Love And Why It Hurts
Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms. Love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The...
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Being Vegan, Meat Bans And Personal Choice
The recent bans on meat in Mumbai, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Haryana in respect of Paryushan have resulted in many on Twitter asking about personal choice. I am a big supporter of personal...
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Apple TV Could Be The Game Console For The Rest of Us
I've always wanted to own a gaming console. After my desktop PC's motherboard crashed the third time in 2007, something died inside of me. Eventually, I bought a laptop and didn't bother about any...
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Talent Has No Class, No Caste
It is not very often that we hear the success stories of those born in the underprivileged and deprived segments of our society, but recently my favourite newspaper, The Times of India covered an...
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The Reason Why I'll Never Go For Hajj
Fa ayna tadh haboon. It is very difficult to understand the depth of emotion behind these words in the Quran when God asks us with so much love and compassion, "Where are you going?" The concern with...
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Why Women In India have Jobs, Not Careers
By Nidhi Mahesh Mehrotra Shyamali is easily irritated these days. Every evening when she meets other women in the children's park or bumps into some of her college friends in malls over the weekend,...
View ArticleDear Minister: Your Attempts To Define Indian Culture Are Clumsy
Dear Culture Minister: Many years ago when I was an undergraduate student at Stanford, studying Indian and non-Indian writers, we had a discussion in my 20 person class about cultures. We were two...
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Don't Floss? This Might Change Your Mind
I have commonly heard my patients complain that their floss smells terrible after usage. One of them brought his floss to the clinic and showed me the usage, thinking that it was probably the wrong...
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My Son's Story: Why We Need To End The Silence Around Stillbirth
September is month of birthdays in my family - me, my mom, my sister, my elder son who's turned four... and my younger son who was stillborn. Until that day, 15 September last year, I hadn't given much...
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Confessions Of A Cowardly Man
I respect women. I actively participate in candlelight marches for rape victims. I write Facebook posts supporting women's empowerment and liberation. I project myself as a man of the changing world...
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Why Mobile Technology Is A Game-Changer For Learning
Working in the strenuous environment of the IT capital of India, Akshay Taneja, a 38-year-old software professional found it challenging to prepare for his ITIL® Foundation exam due to the demands of...
View ArticleThe Pride Of VFX And The Prejudice Against Animation
If you have friends with a creative bent of mind, you may find that they get annoyed when you make technical mistakes about their work. The list of possible transgressions is endless - from referring...
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My Mother, The (Shameless) Refugee
This is a photo of my mother, born Sigrid Jekutsch, as a small girl, with her two younger brothers, Reinhard and Friedrich-Karl, near their childhood home, the beachside hamlet (pop. 844 in 1939) of...
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The Tolls Of Delhi's Student Polls
As yet another election season ends in Delhi, the Capital bears the fatigued look of a city reeling from the spurt of political activity. Multiple elections have already taken their toll on an already...
View ArticleReflections On My Would-Be Assassins
I am not trending on Twitter anymore. My wife of 41 years is happy, and so, to be truthful, am I. Those are not the three hours of being No. 1 on the New Delhi checklist of this social platform in...
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The Power Of The Collective
Venil Ali would never have imagined that she was destined to work towards improving the state of education in her country. Throughout school she was (like most of her peers) focused on herself -...
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