I confess to have never read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s bestseller, Love in the time of Cholera. But the title was too good an opportunity for me to pass up. While the COVID-19 (“Novel Coronavirus”) sweeps the globe, I felt that it would be prudent of me to write about something other than the pandemic. It seems to me that an overload of information that some of us seem to receive (i.e., me) is not good for one’s mental health and stability. It is better to  remain calm and col

Or do you mean it? After being asked for a fourth time in a row about whether I mean a compliment or not, I sat about thinking whether I did mean it, and decided to write about it. A very weird thing to do, you might think. And that is a fair assessment. Who would write a blog post about such an inane incident that has no repercussions. But I will disagree for the sake of writing this article: small things matter. Then again this is motivated more by own boredom than anything

The quandary that the Supreme Court as an institution has led itself into is not one that sprang up over the last two weeks or so. It is a problem that goes to the very root of our constitutional structure. The current crisis may eventually blow over, but the deep seated institutional lacunae that exists in the highest court of the land cannot be resolved through a tea. The conflict that has arisen between the 4 senior judges of the court and the Chief Justice seems to be bas

Lenin was a childhood idol of mine. Source: TIME Magazine Some thoughts and recollections on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. During my Upper Primary and High School years, I was an unabashed communist, though I was, and still am reluctant to admit it. I was not associated with the “Party” in any capacity whatsoever, but I am still immensely ashamed of my naivete. Looking back, if I had paid enough attention to what I was reading, I could have figured out how