World’s Best Quality Standards ….
May 25, 2011…..for a newspaper yaar, how do you spell teachers … I know you are the Times of India – the worlds most read news paper and all that … would it be too much effort to get the basics right ??…
PAK US – sleeping with the Enemy ?
May 16, 2011My column in today’s DNA Pakistan fighting terror was a bit like a bunch of ladies of tradable virtue endorsing the need for chastity. It has been a fortnight since a team of American Navy SEALS landed in Abbottabad, smashed into the…
Will Pakistanis put their National Interest first?
May 10, 2011This appeared in the April edition of Pragati. If there is any country in the world that is a poster child for dictatorship, it is Pakistan. Over the last two and half decades at least, Pakistan seems to have been more stable…
Need an Ombudsman for Civil Society
May 2, 2011When i was in school, in Mumbai, all those years ago – ‘good work’ was done by three powerful men in Mumbai. The first was Varadarajan Mudaliar – immortalised by Mani Ratnam and Kamalahasan in Nayakan – the second was Haji Mastan…
Internet Lumpen….
April 26, 2011At the outset, I apolgise if this sounds like a tale of a spat in a kindergarten playground. It was one of those kind of days. Morning was spent at the university looking at some terrible answer papers “radio is an…
Who is trying to kill the Bill ?
April 22, 2011I like S Gurumurthy’s body of work. I don’t agree with some of it, nod my head vigourously in agreement on someothers. – i admire his integrity, his attention to detail and research. Which, is why I was shocked to read…
Silence Corrupts. Absolute Silence Corrupts Absolutely
April 19, 2011My column in today’s DNA In the fortnight following the high of the World Cup victory, middle class India has been on another high – the high of having taken a stand and done something about corruption. People have registered their anger…
My issues with the Proposed Jan Lok Pal Bill
April 6, 2011The Government of India is lurching from crisis to crisis. And, all of these have one thing in common – complicity of ministers’, Alliance Partners’, MP’s in crime –and the Government turning a blind eye to the pillage that has been going…
How To Read WikiLeaks :)
April 5, 2011From my column in today’s DNA – “ “Read WikiLeaks, smirk and move on” Tortuous Convolvulus is one of the most fascinating comic book characters. He appears in Asterix and the Roman Agent. Tortuous Convolvulus is a troublemaker par excellence — he…
Parent Trap – is Delhi unsafe because of family and society ?
March 26, 2011An abridged version – of this appeared The DNA on Thursday … ( i abridged it, i really need to learn to express ideas in fewer words) 🙂 Way back in the mid 1970’s, my parents were posted in New Delhi. I…