In the recent past two news items in one of the national dailies brought in a few queries in my mind….. In one of the news items, a professor father of an IAS officer said that he knew the day his daughter was born that she would become an IAS and nothing else because he wanted her to get married to an IAS ! He further said , since as a professor he can not manage the amount of money that would be needed to get her married to an IAS...

I was in Delhi a week before Holi. To be precise, I was staying in Amar colony, near Lajpat nagar. I was shocked to see how children, age ranging from 5 yrs and above created nuisance perhaps in the name of ‘burra na mano holi hai.” It was disgusting to see children from so – called educated families and going to good/ elite  schools totally disregarded basic social curtsies and safety norms.Since a week prior to Holi...