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Season of Awards 2.0

With the last of the Nobels of 2017 having been declared, here's a look back at my post from October 2015: Every year, for the last three decades, the first fortnight of October has a special place in my yearly calendar. It is the time when the coveted Nobel Prizes are announced. The fortnight ends with the prestigious Man Booker Prize. As soon as the announcement of prizes begins, I jot down the names of the Nobel Laureates in my latest notepad. It all comes to an end with the Booker. Though it would be difficult for me to collect all my notes, as I haven't kept them carefully, technology can help me get the entire list whenever I want. There is some sort of thrill and excitement in recording the 'discoveries'. The awards always have a message. For example, this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the Tunisian Quartet is an excellent endorsement of how political systemic change can be brought about with a synergy of efforts from business interests as well as civil s...

Season of Intolerance

Suddenly there has been a surfeit of acts of intolerance. Rationalists are killed for questioning ideologies, people are butchered over choice of food, ideologues are smeared with black paint for assisting a 'traitor'...and the list goes on. What I am worried is that the younger generation suddenly has 'role models' that no society needs. We have become a nation of 2-minute quick-fixers, who have an answer for everything.