The Young India

 Kartikey Sehgal

I walk to the theatre and think that it’s not too much to ask for any man. Some security and movie-watching with your family.

“Tell me”, says Bhupinder while manoeuvring his auto-rickshaw through the police barricade, “won’t the terrorist simply take the bus?” A set of three policemen, huddled together, ask for the vehicles to slow down; the bus and heavy transport is let through without scrutiny. “The Police simply adds to traffic woes. In the morning they are on one side …

Kartikey Sehgal

(In coffee shops, restaurants and elsewhere, a selection from conversations on India and its ancient culture. The author has connected the various thoughts as a story. Written in conversational style and the author addresses the reader at some places.)

How old are we (the ‘youth for new culture’ variety) to demand that we do not want the India of the past because we cannot connect to it. And hence we start movements and labels groups as superstitious and backward because we don’t want …

Kartikey Sehgal

“How do you refuse your assailants? They are many, you are one. Kishore refuses the food. The group knows that Kishore knows.”

Now, readers. You know that Bihar is a dangerous State. It’s capital, Patna, is a dangerous city. Naturally—you must imagine—the interiors, the smaller towns and villages would be dangerous as well. The dangers extend to robbery and murder and a little bit of every type of crime. Little economic development, and the people have been eroded from their ancient philosophy; it’s …