Rajesh Talwar

Literature and the art of humanising animals, objects and other things

November 16, 2024

The humanizing of animals, objects and other things has been a literary device adopted by writers from ancient times. As far as animals are concerned, humanizing them is especially popular in children’s literature be it talking dogs, cats or even a wolf as was the case in Snow White and...

What’s in a name? The case of RHODESIA, Africa and India

November 3, 2023

What’s in a name?” Shakespeare famously said. “That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.” The Bard may have been right in respect of flowers, but in a world riven by endless conflict where names have often been forced upon people and nations, names...

Nixon’s deep-seated prejudice fueled Bangladesh genocide support

September 14, 2023

As International Peace Day approaches, celebrated each year on 21 September, thoughts turn to the biggest genocide that took place in India’s neighbourhood, during the 1971 war fought with Pakistan. The Americans collaborated with the Pakistani military in committing by some accounts, the biggest genocide since the Holocaust. President Nixon...

High importance of curbing low-level corruption

May 13, 2023

At the risk of making a generalization, it could be said that corruption has its ultimate source in human greed, but also sometimes in necessity. If a man steals the proverbial loaf of bread because he has starving children, we will be inclined to condone the act of small theft....

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A TWITTERER

February 27, 2023

PAPA: You look very happy today, Piya? PIYA: I always look happy, Papa. PAPA: Except when you don’t. PIYA: Very funny! PAPA: So, what’s the good news? PIYA: I have a job! And I haven’t even finished my Mass Comm degree at DU. You should be proud of me, Papa....