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  Insecure Nationalism It is hard not to notice a sense of insecurity that seems to be pervading all around us.   We Indians seem to have been creepingly overtaken by feelings of insecurities at several levels. One prime case in point is the sense of nationalism. Looking back at the time when we were young, Indian nationalism, forged on the anti- colonial struggle had by that time evolved into a forward looking ethos despite our condition of a poor state struggling with a multitude of problems - poverty, high illiteracy, industrial and agricultural backwardness, lack of educational and healthcare facilities etc . If one were to trace the graph of India's position in the world from the time of independence till date, the nation has been growing steadily - economically, militarily - and it is on a rising graph. We take pride in our growing status in the world. We are no more "violence-fearing peace-mongering," weaklings. In the words of our Leader "Once upon a time w...

  There has always existed a school of thought cutting across political parties (No rth based) which wanted Hindi to be the National language. The constitution does not name Hindi or any other language as National language although promoting Hindi as one of the official language ( the other official language being English, apart from regional languages) has been a declared policy of the government with 14th Sept declared as Hindi diwas to be celebrated every year. The celebrations are mainly confined to token functions in government and affiliated institutes ( like PSUs) and public speeches by ruling politicians exhorting people to poularise use of Hindi. The demand for making Hindi language as the National language keeps surfacing on such ocassions and each time it is raised by some statement from a politician, it leads to controversy. S uch controversies have almost invariably been initiated by politicians from the North and equally invariably engendered fierce opposition mainly ...

  Fartrepreneur A US reality show actress made news headlines sometime back for starting a "business" of selling on-line her farts in a jar. Bizzare ,weird, quirky, obnoxious, pervert - call it what you may but it became a hit with her followers in the social media. She made a small fortune selling her encapsulated smelly product at an astounding 1000 dollars  a jar. She said she got the idea ( what an idea!) after she received  numerous requests from her besotted fans to sell her used bras and undies and thought, like a smart business person, to add  in her product profile another "product"  which was more personal, easy to produce and capable of being "customised". Calling herself "fartrepreneur", she  took to gas producing diet (beans, boiled eggs, cabbage she revealed) maximizing the throughput,  although her her exact formula ( possibly a trade secret) of producing a range of customised olfactory properties is not known.  That was sometime b...