Ground Reality

"Anything But Khamosh " is the Biography of Yester years Silver screen popular star  Shatrughan Sinha,currently the ruling BJP MP from Bihar,the Northern India’s Crucial Hindi heartland state.The Book is released this week  with fanfare.  The befitting  title is reminiscent of his famous filmy dialogue on which he mastered over years and it became his brand .During electioneering too the Star of gone-bye era make delivery of the word many times and draw  repeated claps.    Unfazed by subtle bids to silence his vociferous opposition to the Narendra Modi government  Shatrughan cleverly deflects shots of those opposing him.His acidic tweets which do not spare high and mighty in the power corridors   are always talk of the Town, especially news rooms but no action was initiated against him by the party he keeps on daring on vital issues significant for the organization’s health. His party colleague and BJP MP from same sta...

                                                                                       Around 93 years ago, Kissa Khwani  Bazar in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, was  on fire. Flames leaping from goldsmiths’ lanes were spreading menacingly and hefty Pathans, unfazed by hostile weather in the dead of night, were trying to break ice with bare hands to fetch buckets of water to douse the fire.         In an imposing haveli  in the locality, a lady was writhing in labour pains.A midwife, at work, announced the new arrival –Yousuf Khan-Dilip Kumar . Many times narrating the chilling story in Pustu,  his paternal grandmother-Dadi-told  family members events preceding the birth...