Posts by: Mihir Srivastava

Mihir Srivastava -May 17, 2018

Cafés have become a cultural melting pot where people go to read,write and work It’s such a Western thing, the café and bar culture. After a hard day’s work, people halt at a bar and have a drink. It’s this nebulous space — public and private at the same time — where people throng to […]

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Mihir Srivastava -May 17, 2018

Pupps Roy is popular in the expat party scene in the capital. He has chalked out a radically different life that makes him endearing to his friends Pupps Roy is such a sensation. He’s a popular figure amongst the party crowd of expats in the city. His arrival is anticipated with bated breath at rooftop […]

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Mihir Srivastava -May 10, 2018

For long, we have known that the Yamuna during its flow through Delhi is highly polluted. What comes as a surprise is that electronic waste is now at least partially responsible Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed […]

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Mihir Srivastava -May 10, 2018

This is a rare story of the struggle and triumph of a Nigerian in the city of Delhi, which has its racist moments but is slowly developing a cosmopolitan outlook Ola Jason looks dapper in a blue cotton suit; an impressive printed shirt defines his muscular torso. He hangs his coat meticulously on the back […]

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Mihir Srivastava -May 3, 2018

Delhi, despite being a city of extremes, has this incredible capacity to assimilate people from varied nationalities, ethnicities and make them feel at home Delhi has a charm of its own and many fall for it. People from all over the world come make Delhi, a city of ‘glorious contradictions’ their favoured home. It’s almost […]

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Mihir Srivastava -April 26, 2018

77-year-old Asaram faces life imprisonment for a raping a 16-year-old schoolgirl. Why do godmen have this compulsion to assault their disciples? Crime has no religion. Particularly rape, a behavioural crime of violence. Pared of the horror of it all, the bare definition of rape is sex without consent. When power equations are utterly skewed against […]

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Mihir Srivastava -April 26, 2018

Many have forgiven their tormentors, assassins of their own family members to lead a peaceful life. Sabrina Lal, gladys staines, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi are some of them The burden of anger seeps into life and makes it bitter. Evolved people understand this simple fact. Forgiveness is a virtue. Mahatma Gandhi forgave his assassin. Pope […]

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Mihir Srivastava -April 26, 2018

Arvind Kejriwal has been on a rollercoaster ride dealing with the Modi government and trying to create a working relationship with the LG. He has mellowed down, apologised, politically matured but the struggle continues… Arvind Kejriwal was on a collision course with the central government from the day he took office as Delhi Chief Minister. […]

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