Posted by: Aadisht on: April 13, 2009
It is very gratifying to have your irrational prejudices validated. Happily, this has been happening a lot recently. The first of my prejudices to be validated was the one I bore against ghazals. This isn’t anything to do with their Moslem origin. After all, Islam has also brought us excellent things like qawaalis, kebabs, and [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 19, 2008
Last week, as a son of the Punjabi soil claimed a Gold medal at the Olympics, all the credit went to India. Shortly after that, Independence Day was celebrated, cruelly ignoring the fact that there is no Azaadi for Punjab. Our destiny is in the hands of power brokers from UP and Bengal. Why are [...]