Monthly Archives: September 2025

IAS Officer Anil Pawar: When a Commissioner Turns a City into a Marketplace

- - Advice, Fraud, Politics

They join service claiming they’ll fight poverty. But somewhere along the way, the battle becomes about fighting off bundles of cash spilling out of lockers. Enter Anil Pawar, IAS. Former Commissioner of Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC), Maharashtra. Today, he’s not known for governance—he’s the poster boy for a “per...

Delhi Baba on the Run: Another Chapter in India’s Endless Fraud of Faith

Seventeen women. Seventeen young lives carrying the same horror — harassment, obscene messages, late-night calls, unwanted touches, and pressure cloaked in saffron. The name at the center is Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, a so-called spiritual teacher, now a fugitive. The police are hunting him across states while women recount how their...

Wild Things Grow Best

Among fields that bloom without permission, we’re reminded that life’s true beauty is found not in control, but in letting things grow wild and free. We spend our lives building fences—literal and invisible. We plan, we schedule, we try to bend the world to our maps and calendars. Yet nature...