Languishing Alone

Late in the night When your are all alone With people sleeping Calmly around you. Tears form instantly And trickle down As pent up emotions Threaten to drown. Loneliness of heart Weariness of soul Languishing alone In a cheerless hole. ©️shashikantdudhgaonkar

Categorisation of 21st Century Voters and their effects on Democracies

Democracy since its origin in a rudimentary form in Athens, Greece has gone through a sea change over the thousands of years. From partial participation of privileged people to participation of only adult men to full participation of every citizen democracy has evolved over time. In the twentieth century it has evolved to Universal Adult … Read more

Many Nations within a Nation (an Indian Perspective)

Was on a Sunday shopping for the groceries and vegetable. And as I was moving around looking at the beautiful and multicoloured carts of the vegetable vendor’s, filled to the brim with colourful vegetables, something different passed through my field of vision. Rather a couple, the guy was north-east Indian and girl looked like she … Read more

Elitist Education and fragmentation of the Society. An Indian Perspective

Every day we read the news papers. And hiding somewhere in some obscure corner are the horrible and tragic news.  We commute for work or travel for shopping and we have to deal with nuisance or tragedies like, The news of a young life taken away due to drunk driving.  A young man killed in … Read more