Pandit Bhimsen Joshi – RIP
January 24, 2011Bharat Ratna Bhimsen Joshi – has gone to join the Gandharvas … I feel a personal loss – like a close, much loved family member has died.
Category: India
The Republic, Flags … and the Citizen
January 21, 2011I always preferred Republic Day to Independence Day….. I suppose the preference got created in school where Independence Day ‘celebrations’ were about sacrifice and biographies of martyrs and leaders read out by a tinny voice on a terrible loudspeaker. the voice –…
Of Coffee, Conversations & Death Threats
December 27, 2010….. the virtual world in general, and twitter in particular, makes for quite an interesting experience. I don’t know whether it is by design or it just happened by default, on Twitter, i interact with a bunch of people from different ends…
2G Scam – When Protest becomes Farce
December 10, 2010Yesterday, Parliament didn’t work for the 20th day in a row. It was disrupted from doing any business. I almost expect the headlines, in the next few days to say — “today MP’s did work” …. What does that mean – that…
Bhimsen Joshi – Quenching the Quest for Salvation Through Classical Music
December 6, 2010“If you had a chance to spend a weekend with a man – any man in history or now – who would it be?” asked A. We were partying and all of us had seen better, more lucid moments. The moment the…
Radia Tapes – Coverage Begins
December 1, 2010Over 10 days after the story broke in the Open Magazine & Outlook, the rest of the media seems to have gotten into the act of covering the #Radiatapes – especially the ethics of journalists on the tapes. NDTV went first yesterday…
Radia Tapes – Silence of the Lambs ….
November 29, 2010Last week i had posted on the media black out of the RadiaTapes – filed in the SC as evidence – and that has the who’s who of media, industry and politics – an incestuous oligarchy – in conversation, in an…
Ratan Tata on the Banana Republic
November 27, 2010Quoted for Truth Mr.Ratan Tata on the dangers of crony capitalism & Banana Republic on Walk the Talk with Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24×7 Banana republics are run on cronyism. People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power…
26/11 – a rememberance
November 26, 2010This from last year’s blog post , and they say that change is the only constant ! November has been an eventful month in terms of remembrances. So much so that i have forgotten half the things that we are supposed to…