Way to Go Girl
May 4, 2005The story so far: Ward boy rapes a nurse, in the hospital, and gouges out her eyes when she tries to resist. “the girl, a nurse, was on duty at the hospital at Karkari mode in East Delhi looking after a comatose…
Category: India
Applying Business Logic
May 3, 2005Consider a scenario. You are a body that has hired a bunch of people to do a particular job. That job could be cleaning the garbage, making out cheques, serving food, managing finance, anything. The person or persons does not turn up…
She asked for it…..
April 27, 2005… seems to be the Sena’s response to the horrific rape of a 17 year old college student in a police chowki, in the middle of the day. And this too in India’s “safest” city for women, Mumbai. In a scathing editorial…
Hindu Madarassas
April 22, 2005In the musical, South Pacific – one of the songs is on bigotry. The lines go: You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade, You’ve got to…
Tree Wedding
April 19, 2005As a people we – as in Indians – revel in marriage. Not content in conspiring to wed off near and dear ones, we also take enormous amount of pleasure in marrying off others that inhabit the space around us. And we…
Realpolitik Rules
April 16, 2005Travelling around the Indian blogosphere over the last week or so, found a number of posts that were saying “No to Musharraf”. The banner goes – “you are not welcome evil dictator.” and ends with “you may find yourself in India, but…
The Caravan of Peace …
April 7, 2005… leaves today from Srinagar in India to Muzzafarbad in Pakistan. A simple bus journey tries to bring together people separated by barbed wire. The bus service has been named Kaarwan-e-Aaman or Caravan of Peace. A bomb went off yesterday to prevent…
Innuendo as News
March 26, 2005Today’s coloumn by Sucheta Dalal, The Indian Express carries just enough innuendo’s for those inside the media to guess the company. This is rather like the ToI’s breaking story on the Ambani feud. No names. But enough insinuations for people in the…
A New Twist to Spam in India
March 22, 2005Today, came into my inbox a mail from Business World – “Publishing Industry’s moment of Reckoning” it screamed. So obviously i clicked on it. The story was about Dainik Bhaskar and Zee’s proposed English newspaper, HT coming into mumbai, and ToI moving…
Disruptive Programming – Dial One aur Jeeto
March 20, 2005This post first appeared on Media Musings on the 17th of Feb. sheer laziness (or is it inertia) that prevented me from posting it here! For the last few months we have been working closely with Sahara One to develop a show…