Does the North East Belong in India ?

Does the North East Belong in India ? I first discovered that ‘we’ were seen as ‘different’ when we moved to Chandigarh. I was 16, and rather surprised when we were visited at lunchtime by Mrs. Khunjoo , who lived in the next apartment. Surprised because we don’t generally expect visitors at…

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The Infatuations review

How fragile they are, these connections with people one knows only by sight.  [usr 3.5] Before I proceed to laud the genius of Javier Marias. I will take time to explain you the exact feeling am experiencing now that I am finally through it. It may not be in its wholeness…

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Why am I in love with North Easterners?

  I am in love with them because they know how to live life. Three things flow deep in the veins of each one of them – soccer, music and fashion. I have never known anyone from any part of the country, carrying different shades of denims with such panache.…

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Open letter to Indian Racists

Dear fellow citizens of India. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Darjeeling and Sikkim are part of INDIA. These states are INDIA’s Paradise Unexplored. We are about 7 percent of INDIAN’s total area. – If we dress like a Rock star because we are born with Music and…

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Through a Rapist’s Eyes

  Someone wrote: Katipunan , QC incident Dear friends,  Many of you may not have heard of the incident that happened to a friend of my son last week at about 6:30 pm right in front of the thickly-populated area of BPI-Katipunan, near shoppersville. she parked her car right in…

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The Great Indian Educational System

The original and ideal purpose of education was to gain knowledge through study (or study to gain knowledge) and make us better individuals – leaders of tomorrow with a vision, instead it is creating a society of followers rather than change-embracing leaders and the purpose now is to somehow (or rather anyhow)…

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