A couple of days ago I opened a broken suitcase at my Hyderabad home. This case is opened after almost a decade, manufactured by a company called ‘DELSEY’. I was using this suitcase a lot when I was working with the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF), Manama Bahrain. I lost count as to […]
Author: Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy
Degrading Women – Raksha Bandhan
Please leave emotions a side about the brother-sister loving relation, sacred thread / Rakhee etc., for a moment to read this: In the olden days women were not individuals, but property, if they were not killed at birth. They were bought & sold in those days. They were stolen, kidnapped, raped and even killed! No […]
SHIT – Most Beautiful English Word!
Shit, it is one of the most beautiful words. The English language should be proud of it. I don’t think any other language has such a beautiful word. One Shithead from Hyderabad India has done some great research on it. I think he must be the biggest shithead in the world! He says: One of […]
THE CURIOUS CASE OF Ms. SAARIKA
I did not expect even in my wildest dreams that I would meet a transgender in my small agricultural village! Saarika was born as a man with the qualities of a woman. In a male body, female spirit is residing. She hails from a poor illiterate family where the culture is a man should behave […]
‘THE DARZI – WITH DIFFERENCE’
It was during my student days in Delhi, I saw this shop in Kamala Nagar, Delhi. Kamala Nagar (students used to call ‘K Nags’) is exactly behind Delhi University. After classes many students used to go to Kamala Nagar market, almost every evening. It was during one such visit, I noticed this tailoring shop – […]
AN INVENTION CALLED KARMA
Do you think there is Karma? For those who do not understand the term Karma, let me explain in a simple way. Karma is a Sanskrit word. The meaning is that you are responsible for your actions and you will have to bear the consequences. Till this point this theory sounds good. Now its implication: […]
THE GOOD OF IDLENESS
The Bible legend says that the absence of toil or work i.e., idleness was a circumstance of the first man’s blessed state before the fall. Adam is the name given (Genesis 1–5) to the first man. And Eve is the name given to the first woman. Before the Fall, Adam and Eve had lived in […]
ON BEING MY FATHER’S BARBER
Till his 70th year, my father regularly visited barber’s shop once in every 20 days for haircut. Being a policeman, he had not only followed the police discipline in hair styling, but taught us the need to have a disciplined hair style. For majority of his life, my father had Mr. Narasimha as his barber. […]
The Devil’s Advocate
The Devil’s Advocate – I watched this movie few days ago. I had downloaded this movie a decade back and never got time to watch. It will be enough for me to mention that there had been no other movie where I had to pause the play in mere awe at the magnificence of the […]
Dr. AHMED AL GHASSANI
While rearranging the books in my library, out of nowhere, I found a piece of paper and it happens to be my resignation letter addressed to the then college dean Dr. Ahmed Al Ghassani. The letter is dated 25th December, 2016, Christmas day! With December 2024 this letter would be completing 8 years of its […]
