I am at the TED conference, at the huge Infosys campus in Mysore. There are some incredible speakers here and the conference has been of great value. TED needs to be applauded for what it is doing. Every speaker I heard had something to say and life experience, information and wisdom to share. It has [...]
Do we have to slow poison our kids ?
No, for once I am not talking about the effects of global warming and the retreating glaciers. I am talking about something that is far far easier to control if we had the will to it. With diabetes becoming an epidemic in urban India ( India is the diabetic capital of the world) and more [...]
Delhi descends into savagery : a personal experience
Hi Shekhar, I was in West Delhi at that time and was around 6years old. Although I was very young at that time, I can almost clearly remember everything that happened. I was suffering from chicken pox and my little brother was only 4 years old. My dad had an accident earlier and had a [...]
Delhi descends into savagery
2nd November 1984 I am editing my film. My assistant keenly looking over my shoulder. Gentle boy, who was shy and spoke so softly. Sensitive and very diligent and caring. Another assistant walks in. Whispers in the boy's ears, and the boy looks a little startled and walks out. Unusual, as he would have normally [...]
in Hong Kong with Kaveri
Hilary Clinton accuses Pakistan Army of supporting Taliban, but where’s Bin Laden ?
Pratima asked : Shekhar, What are your thoughts on the Pak-bashing that Hillary Clinton did today?. Imagine a war that has continued for 9 years, with 20,000 foreign troops, that has killed tens of thousands of people, many of them innocent men women and children, and plunged two countries into chaos that will take years [...]
200 more Dead in Terror carnage in Pakistan
And so we believed that President Obama would change the world. And so we believed that somehow the Messiah had arrived that would heal the wounds of the world. Yet with every step, more innocent women, children and men, civilians from all walks of life are dying wherever American troops are present. Pakistan is now [...]
Simplicity of action
and He spoke these words : were you in control of your birth and will you be in control of your death ? or the birth and death of your loved ones could you even control the lives of those you loved dearly or even you children ? did you think in your arrogance that [...]
Extreme vulnerability
in those first moments of waking in the morning of extreme vulnerability and extreme clarity of extreme potential for true insight and action just for a few moments before the ego battles back with addiction to memories not real but false interpretations with waves of fear of the loss of control hitting against the clarity [...]
Is there a Ganga in your Amreeka ?
Dear Shekhar When I joke ( I know that I am not joking) with my 75 years old widowed mother in Rishikesh, who revers and loves Ganga more than anything, that 'better you die soon since Ganga is going to disappear', her ever smiling face becomes pale with gloom when she replies back, " I [...]