Passionate About India

What really matters on this day - perhaps more than ever felt before is - that thanks to this extremely educated man of high intellect, we have a democracy that , irrespective of all fears, is almost impossible to convert into a dictatorship. We have a country where despite efforts to polarize, the secular foundation thrives and will prevail. We have an economy which thanks to the initial focus on National Economic Planning (despite the often faulty implementation), has a solid foundation. We have institutions that work, Universities that create intellectuals, a Judiciary that still functions and Media that still has some people with spine. We took it all for granted. But today we realise what an unbreakable democracy this man created - a democracy, which keeps all our hopes alive each time we see injustice around us. What a man to be called the first PM of India - with pride! Happy Diwali!! #nehru #JawaharlalNehru #happydiwali2020 #HappyDiwali 2.5K 2.5K 207 comments 113 shares Like...

>>>THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA MUST GIVE BAIL TO ARNAB TODAY AND PUT AN END TO THIS ONGOING STATE OF SCHADENFREUDE<<< When high court gave an absolutely erroneous adverse verdict some years back against us, and the national media celebrated; Arnab Goswami gave me a call. He said "Arindam there is a German word called SCHADENFREUDE, meaning pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. Don't worry about these people, your father made a great Institution and it will be back soon. Let me know if I can help." Unfortunately, Arnab is presently not reachable, else I would have called him up and reminded him of Schadenfreude, exactly what media and social media seems to be full of at this point of time. Enjoying Arnab's misfortune. Ideologically anyone may differ with him. He might have been wrong in Sushant Singh Rajput case to demand the arrest of Rhea. But that necessarily doesn't mean he can be put behind bars in a case of abetment of suicide. The...

An essay based on my experience inside Tihar. For the first time since my father's death last year, I was happy that he was no more, for, at his age, he wouldn't have been able to take this pain. And yet as I sit down to write this, there’s no one I miss more because my life was always about talks with him. And the only person who would have truly appreciated and actually understood and enjoyed this essay was him. I dedicate this to him.    A couple of months back a completely illegal arrest wrt to a service tax issue, made a magistrate send me to Judicial Custody in Tihar. At first, I was of course very angry, but by the time the formalities got completed, the anger changed into a quest for knowledge about a system that my father, Dr Malay Chaudhuri and I had written extensively about in our 2003 book 'The Great Indian Dream' (in the chapter 'Indian Jails: Innocents inside Criminals outside'). After all how many people with an interest in jail reforms get a cha...