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Desh Kapoor

Desh Kapoor

Seeker. Searching. Exploring. Indiscriminately chronicling his times.

Live This Diwali with your loved ones via Sony LIV

Diwali is the time for rejuvenation. Of relations, space and our very energies. For someone who has grown up spending every Diwali with the family, being alone on that day is a devastating thing. When I first came to US way back in 1997, it was in August as the

As an Indian, What is There to Rejoice about Bihar Results?

Bihar elections are done and gone and BJP’s NDA has lost heavily. While the combine of Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and Congress won a 2/3rds. In this combine RJD came out the winner with 80 seats. Congress also gained 23 seats. Interestingly, it was JD(U), Nitish’s

“Its enough! I am returning THE Taj Mahal!”

This is the season of Award Wapasi. Everyone is returning whatever award they can dust off from their closet to return to someone. Doesn’t matter who they return to as long as someone in the media covers it. Some have even gone to the studio with signed UNADDRESSED checks

Dharmic Activism and Work without Proper Spiritual Foundation is Dangerous!

Given how things are as dice is cast against one religious group by the media, the “Secularists” and the foreign forces, it is imperative that Hindus also find their expression. Expression to speak up against the intolerance that has been going on for many decades – starting from the colonial era

Why Indian Secularism is a Euphemism for Hinduphobia

Last week, on October 26th, a bunch of upstarts from Hanuman Sena got together and organized a Pork festival [http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/Pork-Fest-Organisers-Booked/2015/10/26/article3097402.ece] at the Malabar Christian College. Police swooped in and arrested 50 Sena activists including the state president, vice-president and

Karwa Chauth: Why this celebration of love is so powerful

Karwa Chauth: Why this celebration of love is so powerful

Whenever anyone has broken the boundaries that come with the limitations of mind and body, what s/he does is in the realm of miracles for the normal people who are defined by those limitations. When Roger Bannister ran the under 4 minute mile for the first time, defying his

Why Karwa Chauth? – Touching the field beyond right and wrong-doing

Whenever anyone has broken the boundaries that come with the limitations of mind and body, what s/he does is in the realm of miracles for the normal people who are defined by those limitations. When Roger Bannister ran the under 4 minute mile for the first time, defying his