If you were to catch someone in the act doing something wrong (morally or lawfully) and point it out to them, chances are high you will hear the refrain “Oh, I wasn’t aware of that” (if you are not unlucky enough to get a rude response, or worse still, suffer physical abuse). Now, I have […]
I finally caved in to a maniacal fit of aggressive driving last week, selfish motives being the catalyst. A slight misjudgment in estimating the travel time to my destination meant that I had to swerve left and right, perhaps getting on the nerves of other motorists as I flitted in and out of lanes (if
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June 5- Another World Environment Day comes and goes by. Anything but fruitful. It’s kind of analogous to Labour Day where you find poor wage labourers continuing to toil away, oblivious to the significance of the date. Quite ironical, but life moves on for us doesn’t it? How would it matter if the world is
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The title is a nonchalant dismissal commonly made by members of the political class while brushing away ‘allegations’ of the poor condition of Bangalore’s roads, infrastructure, garbage disposal and the like. It is equally forthcoming from a large section of the public, albeit in a different context; the reaction is more of disdain: “well, its