High Noon
September 7, 2004Saw High Noon again after almost 15 years. Boy, what a film. The story is simple. On the day of his marriage and his retirement from being Marshall of a dusty old town – Will Kane (Gary Cooper) realises that 4 men…
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…
Holding Down Three Jobs ….
September 6, 2004….is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I am managing a more than decent level of output on all three. Infact, I think that I have not just become more effecient and effective in terms of managing my time,…
Sophie’s Choice
September 5, 2004…is a commone phrase you will find in blogdom, in reference to the Hostage Tragedy in Russia. The term refers to the mother who chose between taking her son to freedom and her daughter to freedom. My father commented this morning, even…
Is there anybody out there?
September 3, 2004Yes says the CNN: An unexplained radio signal from deep space could — just might be — contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been…
Jassi gets a stamp of her own
September 3, 2004assi the ugly duckling – soon to turn into a swan – has now a new feather in her cap – the Indian postsal department is launching a stamp in her honour. I kid you not. A stamp for a star of…
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…
Harry Potter has truly arrived…
August 30, 2004Laura Bush on whether the top bestselling books list on the New York Times are partisan: I don’t know how they get theirs, because that isn’t always the case on some of the other lists—where Harry Potter is No. 1, 2 and…
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…