The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh
My voyage to Kerala and Tamil Nadu was an exemplary one. Jet Airways and Jet Life ensured that. The people there, in whose bungalows I was lodged, along with my paternal relatives, were sufficiently jocund. Palakkad is a Tamil-majority city. That was a revelation, much to my surprise. I had data on the age-old presence of Tamils in Palakkad. But I always felt that Tamils constituted a significantly scanty minority community in Kerala. Nonetheless, the presence of the Tamils was omnipresent.

Santa Singh writes on Love Story 2050. He doesn’t seem to like it.
Everybody seems to be lampooning the once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece called Love Story 2050. Poor Harman baba, what crimes has he done? He is so original and does not look like another muscular hero at all. And the songs are so good and refreshing. That robot does not look like a transgender operation gone wrong.

Crimson writes about an ex-flame.
I fell in love with ______ for two reasons: One, he was willing to stick his neck out for me and continue loving me until my parents accepted him in my life. Two, he accepted me for what I was without too much nagging or questioning.
Neither hold true today since all the while we were together, he had a hidden agenda. He was hoping he would succeed in changing me, my clothes, my attitude and my aspirations.

Megha Swamy writes about how Bollywood, Govt. ministers and even neighbourhood aunties need a paradigm shift when it comes to their views on ‘womankind’.

Kartikey Sehgal
Star India Bazaar-a TATA product-has no qualms in running an illegal Coffee Day outlet in its premises
The Puri Rath Yatra Stampede could have been re-enacted at this plush new hypermarket in Mumbai on Sunday, July 6.

Ananth Venkatesh
India must quickly establish cordial relations with the dominant force now in the Nepalese polity i.e. Maoists. The gruesome comrades of the Nepalese Maoists in India could learn many lessons from them, with the principal one being unswerving allegiance to peaceful politics.

The ideological closeness of the Nepali Maoists with that of the Chinese might provide some serious obstacles to the Indo-Nepalese alliance in the future.