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--> My husband is a Central Government Servant. Like hundreds of thousands of Sarkari Naukars classified into ‘Bureaucrats’, ‘clerks’, ‘Babus’, ‘Red Tapists’ etcetera etcetera, he too works for a small organisation within the vagaries of higher power in the Ministry of Finance. Every three years, Panga, as he is fondly called, looks at the list of officials on the office notice board, slotted for transfer after completion of their tenure in a respective city, town or some unheard of rural district. Sometimes he does get transferred, sometimes he does not; depends on the boss and his opinion of my husband’s indispensability. To add to the complexity, the boss himself is transferable and so is his boss and so is the boss of the boss of the boss and ………….the hierarchy, I hear goes right up to the Hon’ble Minister himself. And his own transfer and job, as we all know are very much dependant on voters like you and me every five years and then some complex political wrangling. The e...

My husband is a Central Government Servant. Like hundreds of thousands of Sarkari Naukars classified into ‘Bureaucrats’, ‘clerks’, ‘Babus’, ‘Red Tapists’ etcetera etcetera, he too works for a small organisation within the vagaries of higher power in the Ministry of Finance.  Every three years, Panga, as he is fondly called, looks at the list of officials on the office notice board, slotted for transfer after completion of their tenure in a respective city, town or some unheard of rural district. Sometimes he does get transferred, sometimes he does not; depends on the boss and his opinion of my husband’s indispensability. To add to the complexity, the boss himself is transferable and so is his boss and so is the boss of the boss of the boss and ………….the hierarchy, I hear goes right up to the Hon’ble Minister himself. And his own transfer and job, as we all know are very much dependant on voters like you and me every five years and then some complex political wrangling.  The e...

Come July and it’s that time of the year when 17 and 18 year olds, fresh from the results and successes of their class XII and various entrance exams for courses in Medicine and Engineering look forward to their transition from ‘kids’ to ‘young men and women’. With school education and its importance registering phenomenal growths in the last few years, the scope of studying beyond school in elite engineering and medical colleges has also increased manifold. Terms and abbreviations like AIEEE, IIT-JEE, PET, PMT, CBSE Medicals etc. are common during this period amongst students who have cleared their 10+2 with the sciences among their subjects of study. They vie for the best engineering or medical institutions such as the IITs or AIIMS in their quest for a fulfilling career and dreams. Students who may have studied the Arts or Commerce subjects are content to look for the best colleges in their respective states or cities or in their vicinity in accordance with their marks in their 10+2...

The power to express…….: People who have read some of my works (there are very few such people and even fewer works to choose from really) say that though I don’t possess much stuff to tell stories from. I just express myself rather well when it comes to writing….express myself…?! Ha! The only one who can express oneself or others is Mamata Banerjee, the Hon’ble Railway Minister…duronto….she is the one who can mail, express or passenger (trash) somebody or something. Chased the Nano right out of Bengal However, my works or rather my expressions (if you prefer) are exclusively not for those and definitely not for you if: i) If you think that any more than 0.000001% of Pakistanis want to live peacefully with Indians. Add another zero before 1 if this means the numbers of such Pakistanis is in double digits. The only ones whose are thinking of sustaining peace with India are those looking forward to having a free surgery for their kid since this is gonna cost...