Tighten Your Seatbelts and Meet Prakash Sethi
Baliyatras have been happening for decades, and the one of 2024 got the biggest eyeball for an interesting incident. Prakash Sethi, Cuttack Sadar MLA from the ruling party, gave a speech in English on the inauguration day. This year, ambassadors, high commissioners, and diplomats from 14 ASEAN, BIMSTEC, and Pacific countries attended the fair for the first time.
Who is Prakash Sethi?
From Love to Love
Love,
I understand your feelings and the depth of your love for me and I`m in acute pain now while writing this letter to you.
We both are adults enough to understand that we are in a mutually consensual relationship with no social sanction. It`s immoral and in many ways illegal. It breaks my heart to tell the obvious. Hence, it will always exist and thrive between us only in our secret privacy with only the phones as its mute witnesses. The space and time available to us is the net after it`s taken by our physical, social, and professional sides. We can`t change or contest it, we can`t encroach on this, and we must respect these Laxman Rekha. After all, we are respectable people.
Why Gandhi Must be Resurrected
It’s a part of the full quote from the letter Gandhi wrote to RM Pearce, in December 1947. The full quote is "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West... The earth has enough for everybody`s need, but not enough for everybody`s greed." Gandhi expressed the idea barely a few months after independence when the country was taking its first few baby steps to stand and walk properly. This quote has since become a popular phrase, highlighting the tension between Basic human needs (food, water, shelter, dignity), and Insatiable desires driven by greed (excess wealth, power, material possessions). He had already seen the ills of frenzied industrialization and was conceiving the country of his dreams.
What’s in a name? The cases of Ravenshaw to X
So, what’s in a name?
A lot! A loud chorus can be heard. These are the voices of the ones who support it and those who oppose it.
The TradDad must make a come back
Democratic Despots
Can a democratic country have a despot or a dictator as its leader? It seems like an oxymoron and an impossible situation.
What tempted me to write this article was while discussing the state of democracy in our neighbouring countries with whom we share strong similarities of physical appearance, language and culture; a dear friend of mine stated that in India things like military dictatorship and pogroms can never happen because our major religion and culture do not lend any legitimacy to such designs and our strong constitution, judiciary, laws would not allow it.
Vinesh Phogat and The Mules of the Rules
Vinesh Phogat.
Her comeback victory over Yui Susaki and Yusneylis Guzman Lopez on Tuesday propelled her into the final, igniting hopes of India’s first gold medal in wrestling. Vinesh made history by being the first Indian woman wrestler to reach the gold medal bout in the event on Tuesday night.
The nation was euphotic, but everything was shattered in 12 hours.
She was taken off the competition on technical grounds because her weight was 100 grams more than the cut-off weight of 50 Kg in the category she was competing in. She could not take it anymore and declared her retirement from the sport she gave her life to and in a heart-wrenching note on her X handle she posted “Wrestling wrestled a defeat out of me, forgive me maa for not being able to fulfil your dream, I am left with no energy to fight any more.”
Old Rajinder Nagars and many more
“Safety is when a child sleeps in the back seat of a car with his parents at the wheels.”
After a full day of fun at the beach, a tired child chooses to sleep without worrying a bit about the risks involved in their return journey. He doesn’t think of the risks from the faulty design of the road bend, a missing road sign or a guard rail, the mechanical defects in the car, a tired father who might doze off while driving, and risks from other irresponsible drunk drivers on the road.
Peace, Piece by Piece
I tried to recall what had happened in the last few months. India’s dream run in the Cricket World Cup 2023 and its miserable defeat in the finals, IPL matches, T20 World Cup and Indian win, General Elections and the unexpected results, political uncertainty, garish and overstretched marriage of an Ambani scion, and the Rath Yatra mishaps and this Ratnabhandara commentary have left us feeling lost, defeated, anxious, uncertain, joyful, and irritated in some way or the other. There was hardly anyone who was not affected by these events. We did react to them in our own way, but these past few months can’t be described as peaceful in any form.
Karthik Basanta
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