By Vijay Darda | 18-05-2015 Not many pollsters and pundits were willing to give another five-year term to prime minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party when the United Kingdom went to polls early this month. Indeed, the pre-poll collective wisdom was that the Tories would be thrown out of office, and the opposition Labour supported by like-minded parties
By Vijay Darda | 11-05-2015 All principles and morals apart, there is no doubt that life is unfair. All of us are not equal at the hands of fate. There are every day experiences in our life trajectories to substantiate this proposition. We often take cover under the expression ‘individual destiny’ to come to terms with this reality. We
By Vijay Darda | 04-05-2015 For more than a week now global attention has been focused on the trail of death, devastation and suffering that is hurting millions of people in the Himalayan region of Nepal after a severe earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale rocked its capital Kathmandu and other neighbouring areas. As a natural corollary to
By Vijay Darda | 27-04-2015 To say that all of us using smartphones in India, and in 2014 this number was pegged at 117 million, and is expected to cross 200 million 2016, are all for a unhindered access to the internet is to say that we as people do not want to have anyone restricting our right to
By Vijay Darda | 20-04-2015 For the last two months or so, we witnessed an interesting spectacle. Normally, unless it is a disaster of gigantic proportions or something like a war, media outlets do not chase a story for days on end without break. But here was the case of a person who had sought ‘leave of absence’, yes,
By Vijay Darda | 13-04-2015 We always find it engrossing when some predictions made about the future start coming true during our lifetime. In this respect, the Tofflers-Alvin and Heidi — an American couple that began writing best-selling books like the Future Shock, The Third Wave, War and Anti-War- from the 1970s onwards have been particularly impressive. Now, for
By Vijay Darda | 06-04-2015 Let us get a few things clear right at the outset. We may debate the pros and cons of global warming, climate change, its impact on the economy and apportion blame for it in international conferences. But at the level of individual citizen we do not have this luxury. The individual citizen, especially the
By Vijay Darda | 30-03-2015 That we are a cricket crazy nation, and the game is our only secular religion need not be over-emphasised. This is something that is internalised by the millions of fans who have imbibed all the nuances of the game from the live coverage and bi-lingual commentary that beams into the remotest corners of the
By Vijay Darda | 23-03-2015 Recently, there have been two prominent episodes in our public discourse that have highlighted the chronic curse of gender bias in our society. The first was the knee jerk reaction of the Union government banning the BBC documentary India’s Daughter narrating the story of that 23-year-old braveheart who was gang-raped in a moving bus
By Vijay Darda | 16-03-2015 You can draw your own preferred conclusion. The top three: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Indian Ocean countries), finance minister Arun Jaitley (United Kingdom) and home minister Rajnath Singh (Japan) all decided to go abroad at the same time. No one can accuse these responsible men holding such crucial posts, that they neglect their domestic
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