"You call every old lady Dadi Ji, Tai Ji. But why don’t you call your own dadi, Dadi ji. All the time you call her Buddhiya (old woman)?", Papa used to scold me. So when he was around, I’d call my grandmother, Dadi – still not Dadi Ji. Calling her Dadi Ji was too much. …
India, a land of ironies, is a land of villages. By any conservative measure, 70% of her population lives in her villages. My village Nichalpur is a small village. 782 people, 125 families – both nuclear and joint. It spreads out in the area of 6 acres. According to wikimapia tools , 105 Nichalpurs could …
It would not matter what kind of mess they made – and they would make a mess, if they governed themselves, the people of India. They would probably make the greatest muddle possible. — D. H. Lawrence, Aaron’s Rod My legacy to India? Hopefully, it is 400 million people capable of governing themselves. — …