A Blue Dot of Thoughts

History is mesmerizing. It is all encompassing and is there in each one of us. Most of the times of course, we neither know about it nor rea...

Musings on Why I am a Civil Servant ? I first heard of Max Weber’s views of Bureaucracy as a student of Public Administration in my Univers...

“ If you have to name your house, what it will be?” Her eyes were shining with excitement when this friend asked this rather unusual questi...

“ If someone hits your car on the road, you should not show any kind of emotion. Not even a facial expression. You may in fact think of tha...

A muse on democracy These days everyone in India- more so in Delhi , is talking about the next general elections. Newspapers are full of...

(This picture is not of my school..I have taken it from Net and worked on it through Photoshop .This is nearest to how I remember my schoo...

My four years in Bengal did not go in vain. Some of that famous ’pratibadi chetna’(loosly translated as spirit of protest) has got into me ...