Oh to be alive

I know you all hate sermons, at your age I did too. I know it’s not easy when everyone chants aloud, at equal intervals: That and this, you mustn't do! You wonder what the hue and cry is about, ‘cause all you want is to get a bite, of the forbidden fruit! No, it’s not what you think, it’s simple and true, I know all you want to do, is break some rules… Well go ahead and do it, but spare a minute to think, is this what I really want to do, something, that lasts but a blink? I thought the latest scourge was AIDS or worse still H1N1, but, not perhaps for me and you… I guess you are way behind, as the newest thing, plaguing one & all, is the relationship flu!! It begins young, maybe at nine today, dies out as soon too, so by the time you are twenty, there’s nothing left to do… Well this is nothing new; long ago it was called by another name, but was untainted, innocent. All wanted to be afflicted by it, back...

Sunday , May 12, 2002 Article If only there was a messiah in all of us Suverchala Kashyap S TILL swaggering under the impact of a killer quake that spelt havoc a year ago, Gujarat recently witnessed a death dance of the worst kind, in the aftermath of the Godhra inferno. Mindless violence—that seemed to show no sign of abating for more than a month—is still rearing its mean head in the most unlikely of places. It is the common people who can make a difference by listening to the voice of sanity. Logic and reason are qualities that have taken a backseat in the current scenario and there is a strong underlying wave of hatred and fear of a particular community. It gets worse by the day under a chief minister who has all along supported and approved the backlash, and has in more ways than one justified what he calls "a reaction." Several appeals and calls for his dismissal from intellectuals and other quarters have come to naught. The situation, hence,...