George Menezes

It has been a month of great excitement. Takes me back to a time when airplanes, pilots, strikes, bombs and austerity were part of my everyday life.

The Jet Airways strike hogged the headlines for over a week. So many questions. Should pilots be allowed to form a Union? Should pilots call a strike and create chaos for thousands of commuters who are exercising their legitimate right to fly from point A to point B for reasons that could even be urgent and compassionate? Can pilots go on mass sick leave? (more…)

This seems a time for Citizen’s initiatives. Desperate times. Disparate initiatives.

The country has to be saved. From our neighbours. Not neighbouring countries but from ourselves. Our  neighbours down the street. The unlincensed driver who mowed down an 82 year lady standing on the pavement. (more…)

I am more familiar with bombs than I am with the PC on which I
struggle to write this piece.
I have walked the path of mangled bodies and burning flesh once, l
long ago, and I am reluctant to walk it again. But as I write this, I
realise I have no choice. I must walk that path once more to cleanse
myself of a cancerous guilt and lay a wreath for a dear friend. (more…)

Dear Advaniji

I write to you in anguish. A mixture of sadness and anger. I do not expect you to remember me. I am therefore attaching a picture of my induction into the BJP’s National Executive at the instance of my friend Ram Jethmalani and the invitation of Mr. Vajpayee. (more…)