I see her often in the evenings, at a cross-road of South Mumbai. All of fourteen years perhaps, sprightly and smiling, cheerful and chubby-cheeked. She is usually accompanied by two brats, her younger siblings, who look straight out of a comic book, their naughtiness palpable through dry-skinned cheeks, practiced sales spiel and ruffled hair. The… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
It was late spring, and the first symptoms of the oncoming summer was apparent; one could instinctively feel the seasonal shift. In the corridors of India’s political quarters, however, no major alterations, not even subtle adjustments were expected. The election dates had been formally announced, and the NDA was preparing their victory speech, as a… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
I am surprised that Mr Arun Shourie has not taken full credit for the Congress-UPA victory. While the BJP looked clearly rudderless, uninspiring and adrift throughout the campaign, the former editor of the respected daily Indian Express was the celebrated one who espoused the cause of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister right in the middle… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
Society Columnists : When asked about the “ cow-belt”, some “ De-light disaster” said; “ Oh really, is that the latest fashion accessory from Ralph Lauren”??? May be she should occasionally drive down to discover the “ real India” beyond Worli Sea-face before writing those insufferably trite comments on Indian politics celebrating the common man.… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
5 pm sharp. It was quite dramatic actually. The very moment the momentous ( that’s the safest cliché to employ) elections 2009 came to a moderately-participated end, TV channels were ready to give us their pent-up, secretly kept, officially asphyxiated exit poll or post-poll surveys. Across channels, the drama ensued, with every show anchor on… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
At a small gathering of well-heeled sort in a South Mumbai club, Milind Deora , sitting Congress MP South Mumbai stood answering questions from the supposedly well-aware if not necessarily sufficiently-enlightened audience from his high profile constituency. At one point, Deora posed a query back , ” Do you know who is your local MLA?… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
It is four days since Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi held his press conference in New Delhi. 96 odd hours later, there is an unusual buzz, frenetic activity, and incessant dissertation of Rahul’s various pronouncements. There is an understandable sense of palpitating fluster in the BJP. Regional parties are tongue-tied at Gandhi’s sincere unanticipated open-mindedness… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
The Sanjay Dud-Mayawati fracas over the “jhappi and pappi” stuff provided comic relief from the never-ending venom, vitriol , Varun and vehemence on constant display during this summer-time election. Almost everyone has had an EC warning, and the standard pretext has been the ” context” in which the happening sentences have been gleefully uttered. Either… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
It sounds like a surprising surrender half-way ( almost literally ) in the election sweepstakes by the once-vaunted LK Advani, and more importantly, by the usually burgeoning with scathing over-confidence , BJP. First, their usually reticent and much-calibrated intellectual Arun Shourie makes a ” private” disclosure—Narendra Modi for PM ( at an unidentified moment in… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
Shri LK Advani was making a sad spectacle of himself, indulging in taking personal pot-shots at the fast-recuperating PM Manmohan Singh, terming him as a timid weakling, even as Narendra Modi, much inspired, launched his own sharp volley of typical derogatory. For a veteran leader who has perennially planned an ambitious restful night at 7,… [Read more…]
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