“We are free in the womb, bonded on birth and realised on death.” Related posts: No related posts.
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Author Archives: Nagesh Alai
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“Think free, walk tall. Salutations to our great country.” Related posts: No related posts.
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“The enslaved cherish freedom; the born free take it for granted.” Related posts: No related posts.
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“Relationship can do well without riposte.” Related posts: No related posts.
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The other day, amid all the social distancing and isolation imposed by the pathogen, I had called up a septuagenarian lady living with her husband ( a Parkinson’s patient ) in our society, to enquire about her and asking her if she needed any help in getting vegetables, food, etc. I had also called up […]
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It is with mixed feelings that I write this at 00.00 hours between 2020 and 2021. Was 2020 a divine epiphany to test the fibre and endurance of homo sapiens who admirably faced and continue to face the scourge of the microbe or a litany of supplication to the divine for deliverance from the spread […]
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When we discover ourselves, we are never desolate, writes Nagesh Alai The other day, amid all the social distancing and isolation imposed by the pathogen, I had called up a septuagenarian lady living with her husband (a Parkinson’s patient) in our society, to enquire about her and asking her if she needed any help in […]
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Across ages and socio-economic groups, by and large there has been a spirit of positivity in facing the pandemic, writes Nagesh Alai The pervasive pestilence of the year has snatched the corona of existence from humans and driven them to the confines of their four walls variously called as homes, hovels and huts. The lockdown […]
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The face-off between the two South Indian Brahmin communities is quite lored and loved over decades, writes Nagesh Alai The other day at dinner, an Iyengar friend of mine asked me if I have tasted the award winning German beer, Ayinger. I had not. So that was an opening for him to tell me condescendingly: “Listen, […]
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Nagesh Alai casts a wry but loving lookback at the evolution of calling, writing and listening to music It’s the 13th September as I write this. It happens to be the 13th birthday of my lovely niece, who is multi-talented and on top of technology and trends. Not surprisingly, I got a Zoom invite from […]