The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

Foreigners are silly. They are not very smart. I don’t deny this assertion by certain Indians used to traveling the world villages. Instead, I accept that foreigners are silly.

And therein lies their charm and power. It takes a certain silliness to live life merrily. And to know life.

This ‘foreign silliness’, which comes across to Indians as ‘lack of intelligence’, is simply a case of delayed mental boredom.

They don’t know as much maths and science at a certain age as we …

Kartikey Sehgal

How the people of Mumbai (and India) are stagnant

When we are attacked and killed, we look for ways to humiliate ourselves. This Indian habit is seen through the media, particularly the newspapers. Hindustan Times carried out a series on potholes in Mumbai roads. They did not investigate the habit of terrorism in Indians. That is a difficult and a controversial topic. DNA invited arm-chair columnists to make up for their lack of investigation. They printed an article by Subramanian Swamy and then …

Kartikey Sehgal

Love is the fear of non-availability.
Man seeks fame to prove to self its hollowness.
Hence the poor love a lot while the bourgeois are bored.
The bourgeois fear the added poverty to the state of their hollow life; they suppress the poor; perhaps for the good of the poor.
The poor wish to know the nothingness of the nobility.

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Internet downloads were rare then. Beethoven’s symphony number 4 and 7 were on a single cd; a unscratched cd was valued. I …

Kartikey Sehgal

“Happiness will not come from happiness; but only from pain. We know the value of standing in shade only after roaming in the hot day sun.”
–Atharva Veda

Pain is fun. Pain is natural. Pain is the word given to describe a feeling that is not like happiness. Humans crave pain. Often they are not able to understand the true nature of pain and hence they give in to drugs and sadism. To know pain is to understand a simple duality.

You know …

Kartikey Sehgal

Discipline is to do with fear. Basically we fear what we should do with our time and so we invent discipline. With discipline there is no fear as to what we have to do with our time. Though I am not fearful, I had decided to use this time for other kinds of writing but I am now writing on fear and discipline

So discipline should come from within. You should be bothered as to what you are going to do with time …

“To write without fear and write well”

We are, at the least, a second rate nation. Men – as a race – are dying.
We must break through the mould of second-ratedness. 

The artist, the creator, must create. That’s their mantra. Additonaly, in their hands the future of women and children is secured. 

No rants and complaints. Our stories are action. Definition. Creation.