A Life in Clothes – Part 5 : Shehari
Earlier: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Returning to the city was trauma. Big time. I was a fish out of water. I lost track of the times I […]
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Identity
Working with differences
Learning to see the big picture is all about making that shift from seeing differences to seeing diversity. Essentially the words are the same, but diversity brings in an awareness
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Women and Power : The Gender Battle
Patterns of assumptions and stereotypes manipulate collective responses. Patterns based on things we refuse to acknowledge or even are aware of. “Strong man”, “Caring mother”, “damsel in distress”, “hen pecked”, “old coot”,
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A Baloch Voice
I often get messages and tweets from Baloch people sharing information about their plight in Pakistan. I decided that it was time to end my reluctance to write on Balochistan,
Thoughts on Democracy: The rulers, the opposers and the irrelevants
As a kid, I remember questioning “If someone is really good at making country decisions, but doesn’t have money to advertise, then aren’t we losing him?” That’s profound, but I
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Politics in India: External Perfection, eternal pursuit
Warning: This is a rambling article. Not edited. It is not intended to present any argument, but wander in ideas. What you feel as you read it is probably more
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Fed up of United States of India
India is one, and this and that and the other. What one? Kashmir wants freedom, but it is an integral part of India. Someone wants Bodoland, but it is an
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Afzal Guru: Indian democracy’s test by fire
I have been thinking about this for a long time, and I have been wondering what would the right thing be. On one hand, we have an attack on the
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Look ma, we have terrorists too!
What a day of pride. The religion that embraced diverse influences to include and evolve now has a new feather in its cap. We now have our own warriors. We
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