This essay won a special prize at a competition organized by the Indian Embassy of Hungary for celebrating the 60th anniversary of India’s independence.
India - As I See Her
Pushed aside in the airbus aisle near the toilets, hit on my behind by an unbecoming gentleman from Punjab. I thought, it can only get better […]

Similarly to my previous articles, I am again turning to history for some clarification on our present globe. Being a professional of Anglo-Saxon studies, the foundation and management of the British Welfare State has been a crucial point of my interest.
To begin with, I would like to define what we mean by ‘welfare state‘. […]

When the Civil War ended in April 1865, the struggle for a united America had not been over yet. Among the many problems and duties that accompanied the reconstruction, the most important, at least in my opinion, was that of the question of the nearly 4 million newly freed slaves. Where should these people turn […]

This blog is dedicated to my Dream. Dream with a capital “D”. A dream of an official bookworm in a dusty, clammy, but cosy bookshop, where every step you make makes the flooring crackle as you move along the tiny corridors aware not to tumble down the dusty pile of books. A country girl, I […]

Ajnabi means different. An outsider, a man apart. This is whom I have become. I have left everything an accountant could have, mainly numbers at night turning sleep into a nightmare.
Now I am Ajnabi.
Writer, editor, proofreader, and too innocent to accept the world as it is. Without a twist of imagination, it seems too […]

The First is always the most precious, our own - until the second comes along. Then we deny our very own and think that whatever has been made of it has now got little to do with us. The First is an entity that is not related to any other, descending from a misty world, […]