#HashtagNil.

Somewhere looking into the paddy fields spreading endlessly through the windows of our classrooms, I believe, I developed my ability to think! Those fields were, I thought, at times, like the end of the world. Among endless questions arising out of conflicts of life, only they stood outside to give a momentary pause to the quest! I was less than seven then. I remember an incident from those days, in Std. IV probably, sitting beside me during lunch a junior asked, 'Bhaiya! How old are you?' '8'. 'I'm 9', he replied without even waiting for me to put it back. He had contradicted! A sharp one at the level of a school-boy! Well those were the days of childhood. Times when we really lived out of this world and those paddy fields in front of our school building were the best escape for us, atleast for me. Towns were a fantasy for most of them out there. They sat to discuss about the flowery stories of towns, the bit they also actually knew! Our life, for most o...

बीते कई दिनों से हमारे आसपास ऐसे संदेशों की भरमार सी हो गई है जो काशी के ठगों के कुशलता की विषय में बात करते हैं। फिर एक राजनेता द्वारा उन ठगों को ठगे जाने की बात करते हैं। संय...

'यहाँ दुर्गा-पूजा जैसा कुछ लग रहा है भाई?' बिल्कुल बच्चे की तरह भाव चेहरे पर लिए उसने मुझे जवाब दिया था जब मैंने उससे घर जाने के विषय में पूछा था। चूंकि दिल्ली यूनिवर्सिटी के ल...

Amidst Rafael cry, not very long ago, there was another cause for which India and France came together in the discourse. The Prime Minister and French President Emmanuel Macron were conferred with 'Champions of the Earth', United Nation's highest environmental honour. The award was given for their works in the area of promotion of solar energy. But when it is about being best in the world, jacks can't qualify, you need to be master of your trade. But this is not actually the case. In the country of 'Champion' a person died working for the environment, but no one was to listen to him. What are our new normals? Do deaths of people, do deaths of stalwarts affect us at all? At times, it seems like international organisations, their functioning and their affairs are just larger manifestations of powerful governments of the world and in the past few years, India has gone a steps ahead to get into the front runners of the arena. With a Prime Minister who is frequentl...

कई बार दिन बड़े निराशा में बीतती हैं। मगर अक्सर ऐसे ही हताश दिनों से कुछ बहुत बढ़िया निकल आता है। सवाल था कि बिहार का समाधान क्या है? और बात जब बिहार की हो तो वो इतिहास तक न पहुंचे ...