Prakash Kona

One day…

Youngsters will learn words they will not understand.

I am a wee-bit tired of activists as I am of discussion related to activism. The reason is neither strange nor inexplicable. I am not one of those people who think that activists should live a life of poverty and degradation and should complain of neither.

What makes this generation of youth particularly self-centred is that they have allowed themselves to be indoctrinated by social media, television and films.

I can add a list of other countries and places where I could never stay for an extended period of time. I cannot live in Bombay and Delhi for more than a month. I would be sick – literally and metaphorically. I am not attached to Hyderabad where I lived for the most part of my life.

The destiny

                        of iron

This has been the case since India’s independence and is not something new.

​Colonialism might have come to an end but the neurosis of the colonised continues in [former colonies of] the third world. We are shamefully racist in the colour gradation we employ in our day-to-day lives.

I can understand the political naivety of ordinary Americans on the street because they inhabit an insular, apolitical universe filled with Disneyland characters. The average Israeli ought to be endowed with a little more realism if not empathy.

To the city’s stray dogs the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) from 28-30 November at Hyderabad must be an existential crisis closer to a Greek tragedy where fate has the last laugh rather than a Shakespearean tragedy where there is scope for reconciliation and moving on.