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An open letter to the Prime Minister on Independence Day

Published on August 12, 2011 By rrdasgupta

Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh, My heartiest congratulations to you and your team on the eve of our country’s 65th Independence Day. As the nation dons its tricolour, and you salute the armed forces at the Red Fort, there would be a million things that will cross your mind in this feel-good and patriotic event. I [...]

The Imagination Campaign

Published on January 16, 2011 By rrdasgupta

Imagination needs campaigns. Campaigns around issues that is relevant to the times so that we can rally the abilities and aspirations of capable people, and can sustain these campaigns over a period of time. Example: John Lennon’s Imagine. Inspired by Cloud Piece (a three-line instructional poem) that appeared in Yoko Ono’s 1964 book Grapefruit, Lennon’s [...]