The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh

I profess that there is immense admiration and fascination in me for Hinduism and for the many divinities that epitomize this faith.

The sacred books such as the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita and many others provide this religion with its seductively cerebral foundations. The duration of the survival of these pious treatises illustrates their attachment to the psychology and mentality of the Indian State.

The gorgeousness of Hindu treatises is that their applicabilities is not confined to the Hindus alone. Sage standpoints are …

Kartikey Sehgal

Here is a premise for happiness; in monogamy, the wife fights her husband to attain a better life; in non-monogamy the wife keeps herself desirable for her man.

Men who are denied their share of women may turn alcoholic and abusive. When their wives leave them they become severely depressed. Thing did not work out for them. They didn’t get their women and monogamy didn’t serve them well either. They are further blamed for the dissolution of marriage.

Even if they get their …

Kartikey Sehgal

Love is nature’s ploy for reproduction; lust is nature in crisis.

It is possible to love one woman for the rest of your life and there are many such women available.

Women are marketeers when it comes to marriage. They make a man believe that he wants it and his time will run out.

Marriage is a compromise for men. Women just have to decide between options.

A man (man) remains a man despite the allurement of beauty. The affections of …

Kartikey Sehgal

[Written immediately after the ‘Tiger Woods Scandal’ obsession and kept aside. Sentences in brackets and italics are current, additional thoughts]

Tiger Woods’s wife should have forgiven him his extra-marital affairs. Who stands to gain; have the children benefited from this drama? Tiger Woods? Or has it ‘improved’ him or made him a ‘better’ man? Nobody except the wife stands to gain. She gains sympathy. And money, of course.

(private affair. Was she a good wife, mother. Has anybody investigated. There must be other …

Kartikey Sehgal

In a shocking development, aliens gate crashed the finale of the popular television reality show, ‘Raakhi Ka Swayamvar’ claiming that Raakhi was one of their own. When asked by the security to leave, the aliens expressed shock and regret at not being welcomed by somebody who if not by looks then at least by antics was one with them.

When this reporter asked one of the aliens for his story he replied in a language not decipherable by anybody but to which Raakhi …

Santa Singh
It is difficult to make friends who are free of any associations. All of us feel strongly for some institution or the other; religion, political party, language and even food.

Let me give you a recent example. A Muslim talked to me about problems faced by ‘his people’.

Santa Singh
An acquaintance of mine is dating two girls at the same time. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays are reserved for the first girl. Tuesdays and Sundays are for the second girl. He takes a well deserved holiday on Wednesdays and Fridays.