Earlier today I leanrt that Dev Anand the legend passed after a heart attack in London…But many of you (especially the younger ones) may not know Dev Sa’ab was a staunch nationalist and openly opposed the Emergency in 1977..
Recalling those days in his autobiography, Dev Anand wrote:
“…the soul of the people was smouldering, their spirit stifled by an iron hand.They were dying to break the shackles, and the lava inside them was gathering momentum, soon to explode into a spluttering volcano.
It just needed a single matchstick to light up. And …

A few days back, I learnt (via an NYT article) that Jodhpur – a beautiful city in Rajasthan, with a population of a 1.2million has only one traffic stop-light. In that article, Thomas Friedman talked about “leaders-who-will-not-lead“.  After reading the news-headlines for the past few days. I now realise what he meant. Sample this…
In the south of India, a long-standing dispute centred on the Mullaperiyar dam threatens to snowball into a major flare-up between Kerala and Tamil Nadu…A few hundreds kilometers away, work on Kudankulam power plant remains stalled due to …