Rajat Mitra
Rajat Mitra is a psychologist, an author and a speaker
It was a friend who called up saying she had cried after seeing the surf excel ad and felt very angry that people were saying nasty things about it and asking for surf excel to be boycotted. “It is so …
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It was a journalist from a national newspaper, “Don’t you think Modi’s saying we will enter their homes and avenge the terror, rather a cheap war talk before the elections?” When I said I don’t agree …
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“Is your novel about Pakistan and India?” A young woman who was getting her book signed by me at the book launch asked me this question. Puzzled I asked her why does she say that when I had not …
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When was the last time we were so angry as a nation? The anger is raw, palpable and visceral ready to burst out. We were hardly angry after the nineteen eighty four riots. We were not very angry …
“Papa, is Modi a psychopath?” The question jolted me from my concentration. I was so engrossed in replying to readers comment on my book ‘The Infidel Next Door’ that the question didn’t register. My …
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It is a little more than six years ago that I began to write a novel ‘The Infidel Next Door’ based on my work with Kashmiri Hindus in the refugee camps. The book, a narrative about the seventh exodus …
