MS Dhoni it seems perpetrated the most horrendous, barbaric and grizzly crime since August 15 1947 against his own beloved country when India mercilessly thumped South Africa in Eden Gardens, Kolkata to joyfully avenge it’s equally mortifying defeat in Nagpur in the first Test just a few days earlier. At the time of writing though,… [Read more…]
February 12, 2010
1) Why did not Union Minister Sharad Pawar use his celebrated “ personal rapport and good relations” to ask Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray to stop his party’s senseless agitation and mindless violence against Shah Rukh Khan’s film My Name is Khan when he met him to seek his “blessings” for his IPL tournament and… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
I have begun writing a book, partially planned and partly triggered by the bizarre events that have unfolded in Mumbai in recent times. Albeit one will try and do justice to the complex conundrum that is India—an unfathomable mystery beyond normal human sensibilities, I am prepared for the long haul. Over the last week we… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Arnab Goswami has started a new trend in broadcast journalism; a reality TV show of a fish market, a slugfest given to the highest decibels. If you saw his TV program on rising food prices on Times Now on January 14th 2010 featuring Brinda Karat , Ravi Shankar Prasad and Manish Tiwari , you would… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
It started with a standard innocuous private decision of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to stay in a five-star hotel pending the refurbishment of his allotted government bungalow. Suddenly all hell broke loose as if a dreaded terrorist had just sneaked into Central Hall of the Indian Parliament for a quick cappuccino. Besides being publicly chastised… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Hi, but was on a much needed vacation hence the long hiatus. New Year’s began with characteristic color; Vidhu Vinod Chopra , producer of 3 Idiots slamming the media by telling them to stuff it when the latter questioned him on the controversial issue of credits for author Chetan Bhagat. As bedlam broke out, Aamir… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
The last week has been a never-ending barrage of controversial news; Telangana, David Headley, Copenhagen and climate change , liberally interspersed with the sexual marathons of Tiger Woods’s putts , butts and long drives, and of course, cricket. With news coverage becoming increasingly commodity-like amidst this constant jamboree , certain features stood out. I thought… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Has it ever struck you, common man, that we in India have stopped questioning some very basic issues which should occur to us with logical and biological precision on auto mode? Let me explain: 1) We all know that the Liberhan Report on Ayodhya demolition was leaked to the Indian Express and NDTV who naturally… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
( In defense of Lieberhan Report ) I am focusing this piece on what seems to have become recently the central controversial issue of the Justice Lieberhan Report on the Babri Masjid demolition at Ayodhya in 1992 ( courtesy BJP media cell’s skilful handling and the Congress’s surprising pussy-footing strategy on the subject ) —-… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Last week was expectedly about 26/11 remembrance and the excess coverage given the monstrous nature of that calamity could even be grudgingly understood. I think we should not make media-bashing a cavalier past-time , a close runner-up to political thrashing. So here goes. Headlines Today reconstructed the Metro-Cama hospital exchange where the trapped trio of… [Read more…]
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