Vijaya Dar
Born in Kashmir. Indic by culture. Occasional writer, avid reader. Love serious cinema, but not TV. Eternal student.
We are still far away from safety, and it is not sure when the lockdown and other restrictions would be lifted. Many of the businesses may never reopen.
30 August, 2020
Lockdown will result in the number of cases looking to be under control, but its repeal will inevitably result in a spike.
11 May, 2020
Kashmir has seen many pogroms against the Hindus in the past, but these were mostly inspired by bigoted rulers
15 April, 2019
On the 1st of April, this year about 200 Lutyens’ celebrity writers published an open letter appealing to the people of India to “vote out hate politics, in other words,…
7 April, 2019
The BBC has had numerous run-in with the government and the people in India
4 April, 2019
Modi will not sacrifice morality at the altar of political realism, compromising the future of the nation for short-term gains
2 November, 2018
“An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
22 August, 2018
India has forgotten Swami Vivekananda and we need him now more than ever
4 July, 2018