The festival of light….
November 13, 2004…. turns into an orgy of noise. Maybe it is just me, when I was younger – the lights and the sound were definitely a part of Diwali. But, in recent years – it has been less light and more sound. Our…
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Fear is the Key
November 11, 2004I was shooting for Power Trip. Our guests that day were Kumara Mangalam Birla and Praful Patel. IT was the 4th of November. and the US election results were out. Bush won, as expected. There is nothing quite like using “fear as…
The Tiger W(h)impers …..
October 19, 2004…. in light of his parties recent losses in the Maharashtra State elections. In fact, he has been whimpering since the end of the Lok Sabha elections. The petulant cry is “hey. It is not me. It is them.” So according to…
The height of Irony
October 12, 2004Star’s new teaser campaign: given that Star has single handedly managed to turn many of us into non TV watchers – spearheading the dreadful Saas Bahu Sagas – i find their campaign highly ironical
A wife or a trophy?
September 16, 2004I am not exactly what you would call a feminist, but this particular piece in the glitterati column of the Outlook had me seething for a bit. A picture of Cricketeer Rahul Dravid and his wife Vijeta – with the write up:…
Boys rape Girl for fun
September 7, 2004In one of the more horrifying stories that has hit the news is one about two boys – aged 11 and 14 – who raped a 9 year old girl for fun. Police say that the key influence in their action was…
Two minor victories for the Government
September 3, 2004The first was the truckers calling off their strike, and the second the release of the 3 Indian hostages in Iraq. In the former, it was nice to see a Finance Minister stick to his guns, after announcing taxes in a budget…
Call off your Dogs Mrs. Gandhi ….
August 28, 2004… the country cannot be made to suffer because you have decided that the RSS is a target.Don’t make them out to be victims. Don’t repeat the mistakes of Indira Gandhi. What Mani Shankar Aiyer did vis-a-vis Savarkar is idiocy. There are…
Shame Mr.Vajpayee
August 28, 2004Last week the Finance Bill got passed without a murmur – some hundreds of thousands of crores – because you percieved an insult. A whole nation and a system insulted because you and your party still haven’t figured out that you have…
PSU’s not to be treated as Ministers’ Fiefdoms
August 23, 2004A little ray of hope in the political quagmire that is India. This from today’s Financial Express: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned his ministers against treating public sector undertakings (PSUs) as their “fiefdomâ€. In a letter to his cabinet colleagues, Dr…