चले जा रहे हैं
–२७ मार्च २००३ न जाने कौन किस आह पर हाथ थाम बैठे बस इसी आस में कराह रहे हैं। कितने मौसम बीत गए इस लवण में तरते तरते न जाने किस बरसी बूँद से मोती बन बैठें बस इसी प्यास में बहे जा रहे हैं।...
Do give away my dowry…
(Translated and adapted from a Pahari (Himachali) folk song) On a warm sunny day I hate work in the bow’ry And say, O father mine Do give away my dowry. I know not the art of winnow And idle my time in the bow’ry Ay!...
Newsprint getting bigger in Himachal as Shimla Press Club celebrates its Silver Jubilee
The Shimla Press Club is celebrating its silver jubilee this year. I must have been seven-year-old when the Shimla Press Club came about. That was also the age when I was introduced to newspapers at home. I thought only The Tribune existed in the English...
Thanks for being a part of my nightmare
Dear Sis and Sir, It seems like a dream, a nightmare that’s got over. And unfortunately you both were a part of it. Hmmmm…. before you come to any conclusions let me clarify. I dragged you both in the nightmare and Thanks for coming, and...
Himachal’s Pride Shriya: Surely Paanchvi Pass Se Tez
Hi Shriya… Hello… I’m Surender. I’m Shriya. I know, you are Shriya, that’s why I addressed you, “Shriya.” (She giggles. And it’s like hundreds of bells ringing.) This is Shriya Sharma, the little 10-year-old girl with bright eyes, who plays as one of the five...
IPL: Himachal audience favours Kings XI Punjab
In my recent trip to Himachal, I was surprised to find the craze amongst people for the current IPL; even in the remotest of the villages. Further, I was surprised to find the fan following for and backing for Kings XI Punjab. Though I live...
Seeti Bajao: Kya School Mat Jao?
On April 22, the Himachal government banned spitting and littering on the Mall Road, Shimla. A whistle-blower brigade of school students was set-up to embarrass the defaulters by the Science and Technology department and state Pollution Control Board. I wish the government had let the...
Himachal BJP back on roads
Let me confess it. I’m a pucca Congressi. But I’d no qualms in accepting that one good thing BJP did in its last regime were the roads. Even being a pucca Congressi, I’d lambasted the ousted Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh, for neglecting the road to...
Women: Congratulations or Consolation
Dear Ma’am, I’d read most of your ramblings on “Women” on your blog. These past few days have been a realisation that the biggest enemy of a woman is a woman and not a man (as it is said). Some time back I’d read that...
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