Emotionally Speaking

Arundhati Roy in JNU

This is a multimedia report of the public meeting organised by the Democratic Students’ Union [DSU] in the JNU campus at Kamal Complex [KC] Open Air Theatre [OAT] 7 August 2009, 9:30 pm. The topic was ‘State Repression and Peoples’ Resistance: Experiences from Lalgarh’. It was also an occasion for the release of DSU’s fact [...]

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Two minutes with Rahul Gandhi: Experience of a meeting at 10, Janpath

Today I, with two senior friends, met Rahul Gandhi at the 10, Janpath. This is an experience of the whole meeting and includes even the finer details such as the sitting arrangement, security, lawn, the place, the look and feel etc. It also has a brief detail on the AICC headquarters, Sonia Gandhi’s office in [...]

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Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th Birthday: My 64 words on the great Hero of Freedom and Democracy

Today is the 64th birthday of Aung Saan Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy activist and ‘prisoner of conscience’ who has spearheaded the movement for democracy in Burma against all odds. There is this website (link) where you can submit your 64 words for the cause. Also read this article by  Mukul Sharma on Kafila. Long live [...]

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A short poem on Ambedkar

This was written in 2004 and was probably my first poem. These are only the excerpts from the full poem on Ambedkar. This is also a commentary on the caste system. In the ancient ages lived a man named Manu, a Hindu who devised a system in the valley Sindhu a system of fragmentation non-pareil [...]

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Poem on Sonia, Slogans on Atal (Hindi/हिन्दी )!

From my archives; mid- 2004. I was happy about the probability that the country was going to  have a female PM . I was upset over the hullabaloo over her Italian origins. I don’t have any special liking for her or the Congress party; I just wanted a ‘woman’ at the helm. So, I wrote [...]

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OBAMA: transition to a ‘fair regime’!

  OBAMA: transition to a ‘fair regime!’  Pun intended! Photo courtesy: Dev. See all the three pics! This photo added 6 January 2009 (shared by Ashish, from Laugh it Out). And this Obama look-alike from Indonesia!

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