Rani’s Friends’
May 24, 2004Rani is now all of 9 months old – extremely naughty and very intelligent. If i shut the door of my room she can open it from outside – I kid you not. She stands like a biped, uses her fore paws…
The Wedding Day Massacre
May 22, 2004During the second world war the British Soldiers used to refer to their American Allies (GI’s) as being “oversexed, overpaid and overhere” I think that the phrase that can be applied to the US invasion force in Iraq is “over inept, over…
The Highest Home PC penetration
May 22, 2004IQARA is a broadband service provider that has its office just off the western express highway in Goregaon. It is owned by the British Gas group. Yesterday I had a meeting with them on providing content services. We asked them about the…
Starting Up
May 22, 2004After 10 years of working for Zee TV – the first 9 in Zee Education and the last one in Zee TV – i finally quit to launch a start up – Cogito TV with three former colleagues. Cogitio TV is a…
Inner Voice and Outward Posturing
May 21, 2004This is a story of 3 women – two betis and a bahu. and it has all the ingridients of a daily soap from the ekta kapoor stable. The three characters are: Beti no. 1 – Sushma “Kaikeyi” Swaraj: a beautiful woman….
Modi in Trouble
May 19, 2004There is justice in the world. A group of farmers in Gujarat have begun an agitation to get Modi out. I hope that Lallo becomes Home Minister and goes after Modi for the Gujarat riots. Why Lallo? because in his inimitable style…
Why Sonia should refuse the PM’s Post
May 17, 2004There are may reasons for Sonia Gandhi to be Prime Minister – her organisational skills, her ability to build consensus, her ability to carry her allies, her ability to reach out and touch the poorest of the poor, her ability to pull…
Why did the BJP lose – a cross national family debate
May 16, 2004My brother Krishnadev Calamur (KD) , has written this extremely interesting article in the New Republic. we have been having a running debate on the elections. i am blogging some select quotes from our mails. KD wrote to me on the day…
What did Rummy Know?
May 16, 2004In the modern American lexion Abu Ghraib has come to denote Pandora’s box. Each day a new set of revelations come out to turn your stomach. Seymour Hersh’s new salvo from the New Yorker this week seems to imply that Mr.Rumsfield lied…
The Rabid Right Resurfaces
May 16, 2004With the elections over, and the mukhota being rejected – the raving right has decided that the only way it will grab power is by moving further right of a scale that most people already thought was fairly extreme. The enfant terrible…