Recalling a Train Journey
About three years ago, Dilip D’Souza concluded that liberalization had done little to improve India’s economy. I had pointed out that his conclusion was fantastic because it was based on just one train...
View ArticleMosque Demolition Meets Deathly Silence
This mosque demolition strangely stirred extremely feeble protests–if you can call them that. Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to...
View ArticleDear Mr. Ramachandra Guha…Cont’d
Via the Acorn, who in this excellent short-shrift to cricket-commentator-turned-pseudo Historian, Ramachandra Guha, adequately delivers the treatment the piece deserves. From the paragraph Nitin...
View ArticleMedia Games
Forget politics. Media watching promises to be a jolly activity. Rajdeep Sardesai’s fiery journalism leads the charade. CNN-IBN seems to change colours almost every other second. From sounding out the...
View ArticleAttention to Detail
I rarely read a professional politician’s articles unless I know his/her record. Sitaram Yechury definitely is in my list of no-reads. As an ex-editor, I’m happy to say that my eye for detail has not...
View ArticleWill He Stick to His Words
Stung bitterly, Prakash Karat has thundered that he will not support the Congress ever. Prakash Karat has discounted the possibility of the CPM supporting the Congress after the next general elections…...
View ArticleAcademic Terrorists
Goes by the name of Denise Spellberg. Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones...
View ArticleThe Slimes of India’s Mask is Off
This post is more an addendum to Barbar Indian’s brilliant analysis of the Slimes’ shocking duplicity in covering the persistent violence at Kandhamal. For more than a few weeks, the Slimes has been...
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Sorry Can’t Make a Dead Man Alive
A timeless line from Dr. S.L Bhyrappa’s multi-layered and philosophical novel Saakshi (Witness) reads as follows: There is no greater arrogance than the arrogance wrought by a sense of...
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Marxist-Sociologist Nutjob Wanks off on the Pages of the Madras Marxist Rag
This piece was published on Centre Right India yesterday. Comments and criticism welcome as always. Thank God I am not in Madras. If I were, my hands would’ve gotten dirty the moment I flipped to that...
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