Dheeraj Kalgutkar

An odd 'like' on Facebook and you are on door of a shadowy police lock-up, an odd tweet and you are beaten on a ghastly night-street. A fire-ball comment over some old-but-always-in-news-issue and you're slapped in your own office! The largest democracy of world, the one that taught non-violence and peace to wider audience has travelled all this far to a gleam position where it's all about 'them' and 'us'. In India of today, you are no more allowed to have a opinion of yours nor are you allowed to not have any opinion and be a fence-sitter either! Impatience and intolerance have become keys that define our lives. The vicious 'them vs. us' attitude has plagued the very conscience of India that once gave call for eternal harmony of one and all. We have started to overlook the ideas 'they' have or the 'solutions' they possess. Be it Prashant Bhushan who is facing public ire today over his comment in 2011 where he suggested t...

Follow @meetdheeraj There was time during colonial era when people around the globe used to refer India as 'Land of snack-charmers'. From then till now, the democratic India has grown considerably and has got a new title - The Land of Miracles! Yes, miracles; the one thing which no science of world will ever succumb in anyway to reveal or will anybody dare to sit at leisure and talk or make fun of. The whole of India is a miracle place with every corner of it occupied by some weird miracle baba or still more simplistic yet weird to believe miracle occupant. But few days back what happened in the busy catholic church of Mumbai took everyone's heart by sudden storm and attracted an unusual array of crowds into its premises to watch what is quintessentially impossible to happen not just in India but anywhere on the globe. The god who resides in million hearts, Jesus Christ was weeping! Yes, Christ -the redeemer was crying; crying scary tears. As 'tears' tric...