Blog: I Am A Civil Servant From Bihar, US Visa Showed Me Who's The Boss

Shalin | Thursday April 26, 2018

Travel to the United States of America has never been an item on my priority list. Even when a lot of my classmates at IIT-Roorkee talked about their dream of travelling to the US for higher studies, I neither shared their enthusiasm nor quite understood it. For me, education never got any ' higher' than good, old graduation. That itself appeared to be a Mount Everest...

Blog: I Was A Useless Punjabi Boy. Bihar Saved Me - By Patna Police Chief

Shalin | Sunday January 08, 2017

Biharis have some serious problems - social and economic, that they are grappling with, but what they do possess in abundance and in general is a big heart that beats for India, a humane and compassionate self that still has a special place for the not-so-able and the not-so cutthroat. You can step off the road to success and yet be accepted with respect. What more ca...

Blog: Why I Loved Pink

Shalin | Sunday September 25, 2016

I am neither an avid movie watcher nor a keen cinema goer, but persuaded by a colleague's strong recommendation, I decided to watch the movie "Pink". It is indeed a very well made movie that captures the moods, hues and texture of Delhi and its surroundings in an eerily realistic manner.