It’s a book. Not a boy or girl. I am the father of two daughters. Writing and publishing a book was more like becoming a mother. It stayed with or rather within me for nearly a year, when I keyed in the novel, usually after a long day working, earning my livelihood, again mostly on…
Category: Life
If Tiger Woods had crashed in India
(Tiger Woods was in India this week. Re-posting a piece I wrote about the golfer in 2009 when he was in news for his personal life) In an Indian environment, the Tiger Woods saga perhaps would have been a little different. When the golfer crashed his vehicle outside his house, the police and ambulance would…
Nothing to be gay about
(Re-posting a piece I wrote recently, in the wake of the Supreme Court refusing to review its decision that criminalizes gay sex) Vikram Seth has spoken eloquently about gay rights; Rahul and Sonia Gandhi have spoken about need to legalize consensual sex among same sex adults, while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP’s) Rajnath Singh, not surprisingly,…
A Driving License without bribing
I renewed my driving license (DL) recently without paying a tout, the usual route advised by my gym trainer, ex-colleague and many others. As I found out (first up, I googled: how to get DL in Gurgaon, Haryana), some e-savvy touts advertise online. The promotional literature describes (in very bad English) dealing with a government…
Aam Aadmi Party needs to succeed
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is focused on setting right government functioning that I believe will go much beyond shunning red beacon lights on official cars and bungalows in Lutyens’ Delhi. If they are able to fix just this and nothing more, it would be a massive achievement. I have selfish (survival maybe a more…
Toting an iPhone 5s
I am the proud owner of the very nippy iPhone-5s, easily politically incorrect in this day and age of the Aam Aadmi Party, free water and power. The handset does send out signals of importance, again improper like personal bodyguards or moving about in a red beacon or Lal Batti car that Arvind Kejriwal hopefully…
Nothing to be gay about
Vikram Seth has spoken eloquently about gay rights; Rahul and Sonia Gandhi have spoken about need to legalize consensual sex among same sex adults, while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP’s) Rajnath Singh, not surprisingly, has clarified that homosexuality is unnatural and alien to India’s ethos, culture and society. The TV channels, meanwhile, have devoted prime time…
The making of a rapist
My attention would not have been drawn to 10-year old Kaku under usual circumstances. It did, as our collective consciousness has been seized by the recent Shakti Mills gang rape in Mumbai and earlier in Delhi that resulted in the death of the brave Nirbhaya. I recently met Kaku just by chance at a park…
The right to kiss in India
According to recent news reports, video clips of couples being intimate with each other while traveling in the Delhi metro have been uploaded on porn websites. I use the metro whenever there is need. Mostly the coaches are jam packed compelling an orgy of intimacy with every passenger in the vicinity. It is similar to…
Does sex mean marriage?
The Madras high court in a recent judgment has equated the mere act of sex between two adults to marriage needing a “decree’’ of divorce to annul the same. A one-night stand, time with a prostitute, pre-marital sex or even an extra-marital affair could translate as legal commitment to be wife or husband, as the…
Siddharth Srivastava 