Entries for the 1st Blog Mela of 2006
January 2, 2006Nominate away. new blogger, photo blogs, anything that will bring a bit of spice to our own little blogdom. The rules are the same as usual.
The year of the Maurading Moral Brigade
January 1, 2006The Moral Brigade has been in rampant form this year. From dress codes in colleges, to angst about virginity (aside: why is there such an issue over such a minor tissue I can never ever fathom ?) From the restriction of employment…
The Understatement of the Year Award
December 28, 2005… goes to L.K.Advani – for stating that the BJP was going through a bad patch. Fatricidal warfare that would embarass the Congress (not to mention the Kauravas and Pandavas), Half a dozen MP’s caught on tape taking bribes, a sex scandal,…
Praise Be….
December 28, 2005… somewhere in the world – someone has taken a spammer to court and won. I have all but ceased writing on media musings because of spammers. And on this site too – despite heavy anti spam plugins – spammers still manage…
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
December 28, 2005A few months ago one of dad’s friend’s gifted him this book, which has been gathering oodles of dust on the book shelf. Yesterday, finding nothing light to read – I picked it out of the bookshelf, dusted it, and tried to…
Of Media and Morality
December 24, 2005This week has seen the Mumbai High Court give an incomprehensible ruling on Adult Certified films on TV. They have placed the onus on what we get on our Television screens, not on the broadcaster but on the cable operator who brings…
What came first?
December 11, 2005If a news channel ran 63 stories on a single issue in a week, you won’t be mistaken in thinking that it is an overkill – unless of course the aliens landed on earth or the PM got assasinated or the US…
Good Business
December 11, 2005SR on the phone to the client: “a good business deal is one in which the least number of people get hurt” Good One. Should use it in a film one day 🙂
An ode to Bush…
December 5, 2005…. is part of the syllabus for 11th standard students in Pakistan. It is truly quite …well, I am at a loss for words. The poem: Patient and Steady with all he must bear, Ready to meet every challenge with care, Easy…
The Price of ‘Perfection’?
December 4, 2005Over the last few years i have blogged on and off about termination of the female foetus leading to massive gender imbalances in India. It is something that bothers me terribly. Yet, would my response be the same if hordes of women…