While books are the ultimate form of knowledge sharing & immortality of ideas, not all the books provide accurate accounts of reality. Each person is entitled to different perceptions of the reality that surrounds him & it is strictly no one’s business to impose his/her reality as the only triumphant …
Read More »Ban on Beef: The “Holy Cow” and the “Holy Crap!”
By now, the word “ban” may have become a very familiar one among all of us. It’s been thrown around nowadays like F-bombs all over the place. The moment a “babu” or a “neta” finds something repulsive while walking around in his daily life, he calls up all his neta …
Read More »Ban on Alcohol: Can Gujarat go beyond the bootlegger?
Living in Gujarat with the alcohol ban strongly influences every citizen of the state. This is what it did to me. If I had to summarize my journey in the world of alcohol, I’d say “From Gujarat to Gurgaon, to Germany, and back to Gujarat again”. So, now that that …
Read More »7 inspiring movies ‘they’ don’t want you to see! Links to full movies in the article!
‘They’ is a very ubiquitous term which can mean the government, the society, the corporations, organized religion, authoritative figures that abuse their power & spoon-feed you like your nanny about what you should consume & what is too much (read, too truthful) for you to digest! However, here the pronoun …
Read More »Ban on Swear Words: The Overreaction that Could Ruin an Art Form
Ah, language; that lovely thing that we do with our mouths which can make the other person feel a wide range of emotions and feelings, thus instilling the urge to reiterate and keep the conversation going. Language is as close to an art form as dance or playing an instrument …
Read More »Ban on the AIB Roast: One for the Overgrown Elitist Babies
Sometimes, it is really important to put yourself in the shoes of others in order to understand what they must be. Well, today I would like to put myself in the shoes of the Indian government and some of these politicians, even though it is something I’m pretty sure I …
Read More »The Country of Bans: The Era of Megalomania and Fanaticism
Well guys, I just spent the last hour sifting through loads of news videos and videos of political leaders screaming their lungs out about how they think the Hindu culture and people are like Gods who may just wither and die like a flower if exposed to anything “impure”. Frankly, …
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