The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

[Fiction]

I dance to Tango. Only, I don’t know what it is. I had seen it once, in some movie. They raise their skirts, maybe they do. But that’s not the reason I liked Tango. The song had a bitter-sweet quality; like you celebrate the birth of a baby while reminiscing about your lover’s death. While the heart sings for the baby, the mind wishes the olden moments of love.

The dance watchers—who don’t dance—clap for the dancers. Then they are inadvertently drawn …

Kartikey Sehgal

 
TERI and Around

I learnt about TERI University (Delhi) from a friend who was celebrating the success of it’s chancellor Rajendra K Pachauri*.

I wanted to visit a place that talked about energy conservation and environment preservation. My friend is a student here. And she is talented. And she is a she. It all added up to my desire to go to TERI.

While level-headed people would like to talk about the significance of such a university in the context …

Kartikey Sehgal

We come on earth to live and yet we prepare for a living.

We like to claim love and lust and longing while we live but what runs parallel is murder, bombs and destruction. Does the end justify the means. Is a nuclear catastrophe important so that the survivors do not make weapons again.
Japan suffered a nuclear catastrophe and is least likely to use nuclear force today. They make the best robots and cars. Is this evolution. Survival of the fittest. On …

Kartikey Sehgal

Chin Chiari and his family lived in a village. One day, some English speaking ladies came to the village to talk to Chin Chiari’s father. He didn’t understand anything the ladies said and asked them to speak to Chin Chiari.

The ladies were very happy to learn that Chin Chiari spoke in English. They praised him and called him “cute” and then they pulled his cheek. Chin Chiari smiled and told them that he didn’t like make-up of any kind.

The ladies asked …

Kartikey Sehgal

Mayawati is right about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when she says that “…he was responsible for depriving the community of certain special rights and privileges by getting the Poona Pact passed on September 24, 1932."  (source)

Mohandas was not very concerned about Dalit rights. He felt that Hindu society would disintegrate if special privileges were given to Dalits. His concern lay not in the progress of Dalits or Brahmins but in the welfare of the nation.

If I further divide the Hindu …

Crimson

Crimson’s chain of stories:

Home Truths, Trials of Time, Rambling about the Ex

Something inside me is dying. And it continues to die bit by bit every time you pick up the phone and run me down in every conversation. And yet I count the hours all over again looking forward to your next call. You never flatter me or shower me with compliments; you never ask me how my day went or even remember any of our previous conversations, yet I …