Category: Opinion

‘Anything we don’t receive at home, we seek outside, mostly with strangers. That includes Attention, Appreciation and Acknowledgement – the 3 As. Our phone and the social media become our lifelines. What is the purpose of eating expensive food at an expensive restaurant or wearing expensive clothes or going for […]

‘Twenty-sixth January is an important day for both Australia and India. Australia celebrates this day as Australia Day and India as Republic Day.  As people comprise a country, warm greetings to all my fellow Australians and Indians on this day. India gave me birth, values and education. Republic Day of […]

‘Yesterday, 19th January 2019 marked the 29th anniversary of the beginning of a tragic mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits (KP) from their traditional erstwhile home – the valley of Kashmir – their Maej Kasheer. Anecdotally, it was their 7th mass exodus from Kashmir during the past seven centuries or so! […]

‘A country is as good as its people. People make and shape a country. The people of India must own their country and proactively look after it. But do they? A country is defined by the values, conscientiousness, citizenship and discipline exhibited by its people. Politicians are just the sample […]

‘In a most unlikely scenario, if I fool myself and stand for elections in India, I am certain to lose my security deposit. I am not even sure if my own family members will vote for me. I may even be physically and mentally harassed! Why? Simply because I: Stand […]

‘Has there ever been, or will there ever be, a public debate – on the television or in the published media – about the maximum population that India, as one nation, can afford to have? On the evening of 4 December 2018, I attended a book launch event at Constitution […]

‘I did not save that little bird sitting paralysed in the middle of the eastbound left lane of Manning Road this morning. Due to the current holiday season, the road traffic in Perth is very light these days, about one-tenth of the normal traffic. I was alert enough to spot […]

‘In November 2018, on my return to Perth from Indonesia, after attending Science and Mathematics International Conference (SMIC 2018), hosted by Universitas Negeri Jakarta, I wrote an article, Are Indians quietly watching their country die? (https://dbpost.com/are-indians-quietly-watching-their-country-die/), which was published in Dainik Bhaskar, a reputed Indian online daily, on 13 November […]

‘Late last month, from 25th to 27th October 2018, I made a short (3-day) visit to India to attend the funeral (10th day Kriya) of my Gurumata, Smt. Bimla jee Hakhu, at New Delhi. For decades, while her husband, our Guru (Sh. Bansi Lal Hakhu, aka Bhaisahib) – a renowned […]

‘How painful it is to hear a fellow Kashmiri Pandit carelessly brushing away any discussions about Kashmir, whilst making such irresponsible sweeping statements as, “Why should we discuss Kashmir, we don’t live there anymore? … There is no chance my children or I are going to live there, so why […]