Karan Mujoo

Probably shouting into the void, but had to write this. livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

Must Read Siddhartha Deb (@Debhartha), a fellow writer and a New Yorker, wrote a touching (short) memoir (or a long essay) which appeared in the Equator (27th February, 2026). (Scroll down for link) (@EquatorMag) It is about his dream of becoming a reporter to write about India’s North-East, a region forever under the military occupation of the Indian army. He embarked on this path starting as a student at the Presidency College in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and ending up as a professor at the New School of New York. In between he spent some years in Delhi as a journalist and then as a doctoral student at the famed Columbia University under the great Edward Said (of Orientalism). Two of his excellent books (books I liked): The Beautiful and the Damned (collection of essays from the time when India was transitioning to “free market”), and Light at the End of the World (a surreal fiction after 30-35 years under the free market regime, especially for Muslims) I found the essay at once honest, deeply personal and about the world at large which seems to be hurtling fast towards doom. The writing, of course, is fresh and crisp. equator.org/articles/from-…

No more ‘Tinku’, ‘Chhotu’, ‘Bablu’ or ‘Shaitaan’…. Rajasthan government launches scheme - Sarthak Naam Abhiyaan- to CORRECT ‘ inappropriate’ names. Only the Indian bureaucracy could draw up such a govt scheme of 3000 acceptable names. Acceptable names include ‘Akbar’, ‘Birbal’, ‘Vrindavan’. Amazing report in @htTweets today. By the way, Major Shaitan Singh, Paramveer Chakra winner and hero of Rezang La would have had to change his name if this scheme had been in existence then…..

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