Courtesy Fropki A member of Fropki sent this to me...titled...Indian History by a School Boy...I lapped it up including all that non-sense!Read... Indian History by a Schoolboy! The original inhabitants of ancient India were called Adidases, who...

Bau Ji by Rajbir Deswal Bau Ji was an ordinary person. But he was a special father. I had never thought of addressing him in ‘historical terms of having had been!’ Not that he was immortal, but that he was mortally alive and succumbing to all my...

Oasis in Osoyoos By : Rajbir Deswal & Chander Koumdi The Cascades, a mountain range east of the water body of Puget Sound was in sight with its lofty peaks. The meters high Steven’s Pass presented a commanding view. The Columbia river...which had...

Call of the Unknown Soldier by Rajbir Deswal Driving past Maj. Sandeep Shankla Park in Panchkula, I hazily saw certain Army and private vehicles lined up, in a thick downpour. It was some solemn ceremony going on. Army men were slow-marching with...

Dada Sahab Phalke award winner Manna De is the connoisseur classical singer who belongs to all times...his numbers that fascinate me the most are: Ai mere pyare watan, Sham dhale jamuna kinare,Pyar hua ikrar hua,Ye nayan daree are,Tu chhupi hai...

Footballs all by Rajbir Deswal Look, I am a senior cop and you need to salute me,” “said Football One. “What an introduction buddy! You were a nice, round-faced, round bodied, roly-poly, rotund football. When did you become a cop, of all the...

Husband of my wife! By:Rajbir Deswal It was my wife’s observing her Karwa Chauth last year. Days ,months and years may have rolled into eternity for the rest of the world, but of the two of us it was as if we had been blessed with conjugal bliss only...

US immigration and us by Rajbir Deswal Holidaying in the US this summer, I did keep myself informed of happenings back home in India through the net, but had a total eclipse of the Shah Rukh Khan issue, which on landing I learnt, had put the entire...

Misplaced perceptions By: Rajbir Deswal Obviously obsessed with the pretension of studying and knowing literature, a student tells me about the marigold being a “vulgar flower”. Taken aback as I am, it is not that easy for me to gulp the bitter...

Of Aindees & Khoppartunns of Haryana By: Rajbir Deswal One doesn’t to be a Haryanvi to know aindees and khoppartuns because they are typical to all societies and the Haryanvi dialect has labelled them with a definite nomenclature. To pinpoint...