29/11
November 29, 2011And after 4 days when the terrorists terrorized, the media went ballistic and people watched a spectator sport – it ended today, 3 years ago. This morning I tried to look for the names of the police and the NSG men who…
Three years on, 26/11 has been reduced to just another ritual
November 28, 2011My column in today’s DNA 26/11. A day three years ago, when the average Mumbaikar’s sense of relative security was ripped out. It isn’t that Mumbai was a haven of security and peace. Quite the contrary. The last two decades had been…
A few good people …
November 15, 2011The trouble with the kind of churn that has been going on for the last 18 months, not just in India but worldwide, is that you (rather I) tend to lose faith in humanity… Your anti corruption leaders fudge bills, sportsmen fight…
Quo Vadis Team Anna ?
November 1, 2011This appeared in the DNA as what next for team Anna ..a team that seems to be drowning under the weight of its own publicity .. The last fortnight has been an interesting time for Team Anna. A series of incidents…
Bunker Roy & the Barefoot College
October 18, 2011Heard this fantastic piece by Bunker Roy on Ted Talks. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf The other day was having a conversation with someone on why India doesn’t produce a Steve Jobs…And, just like Jobs designed all solutions based around intuitive usability, so has Bunker…
If media doesn’t cover an event, did it occur?
October 17, 2011My column in today’s DNA: If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to have heard it fall, does it make a sound?’ is an old philosophical question on which there has been much heated argument over the…
If medium is message, what is the message?
October 3, 2011My column in Today’s DNA Odisha. Sikkim. Andhra Pradesh. Manipur. Natural disasters struck the first two states. Floods in Odisha impacted 2.2 million Indian citizens. People lost lives. Property was destroyed. Development washed away. Sikkim suffered an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the…
Parijaat
September 27, 2011In my garden, Lonavala, the Parijaata tree blooms. The tree with a story. Krishna and Satyabhama are in Indralok, helping the Devas fight Narakasura. When Krishna is injured in battle, Satyabhama picks up arms and slays Narakasura. Indralok is ecstatic. Song, dance,…
27 to Die
September 26, 2011SR, my business partner, moved last year to Gurgaon. He has been regaling us with stories ever since, during his visits to Mumbai. Gurgaon sounds like the wild west, meets hilly billy country in sparkling new steel and chrome mall-dom. I have…