Rajkumari Sharma Tankha It was around 10.30 am yesterday when I reached the Botanic Garden Metro station, Sector 37, Noida. I was on way to my mom’s home in Delhi to participate in a family puja. As I alighted the steps and entered the check-in area, I noticed a long queue at one of the […]Read More
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Rajkumari Sharma Tankha If you destroy nature, nature will destroy you… There is no denying this fact. Every year, we have one or the other natural calamity: an earthquake, a landslide, a cloud burst or a flood more severe than the previous one leading to a massive loss of life and property but man in […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha As if mainstream media wasn’t enough, social media too is now falling into the same rut. There is a slight difference though: while journalists working in mainstream media are answerable to their bosses and hence, follow a particular line of writing, there are no such limitations on social media. The result: all […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The other day, I was chatting with a group of friends when the conversation veered around on how the times are changing, how neither small girls nor old women are safe in our country, how the crime is increasing, how the boys are indulging in sexual crimes. “We must do something, may […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha …and the world came crashing down. “The FNAC (Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology) report is positive. Your wife has cancer”. For years after the doctor who broke this news to us at Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital in 2006, I wondered with how much ease and comfort could he say it. Perhaps he was a professional, […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The other day I was watching an episode Sister Mariam’s Dilemma of Zindagi Ke Crossroads on Sony TV. Of and on I do watch this serial since they show some complex issues through small fictional stories and then discuss what a person stuck in a difficult life situation should do, also discussed […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I have been travelling by Delhi Metro regularly ever since it started operations in the city. Initially, when the trains were new, people were a little in awe of these meticulously clean compartments and they travelled with care. I remember there used to be pin-drop silence in the compartments, at best travellers […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha So as suddenly as it had erupted, the Padmavati/Padmaavat row has died. This makes me think. What was it all about, why was it? Why were people so agitated over a movie, a film that its producer said was historical fiction? How, suddenly, after the movie is screened and has already made […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR has come too close to Diwali which makes it quite tough to implement it, more so, as production has already been done. A huge amount of money has already been invested in the purchase of crackers by Delhi shopkeepers, and a ban on sale […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha For some days now… no not days, I think months, I have been wanting to write this letter. But, before I pen down my thoughts, let me tell you that that I am quite a rational person. To me all people are equal, no matter to what religion, caste, creed, faith, state, […]Read More