What a day! As the evening ends and the India-Pakistan cricket match does not go down to the wire, what with wickets starting to fall like nine pins, I sit back and reflect on a day when someone tried to challenge my integrity as a professional. I stood my ground to the barrage and in [...]
Archive for the ‘Current affairs’ Category
3 Oct
Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 opening ceremony – A big hit
The Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Opening ceremony just got over and I caught bits and pieces in between. From what I saw, the spectacle was on par with other great global showpiece events and the Government of India along with Sheila Dixit‘s office do deserve all the praise for getting the Games up and running [...]
3 Oct
Congress – BJP domain wars
Type www.bjp.com on your browser and you are going to be taken to the Indian National Congress official website. At least that was the case this morning at 11.46 AM IST as I entered this post. The current official Bhartiya Janata Party website is www.bjp.org, but the popularity of the .com domain makes users naturally [...]
28 Sep
What Mangalore can teach Ayodhya
So, there we have it. The Ayodhya verdict is due this month end and there’s no stopping it this time, now that the Supreme Court has intervened and cleared the path for judgment day on September 30, 2010. Simplistically speaking Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi has been a conflict between two of the largest communities in India [...]
5 Sep
President Osama in Sunday Express?
Today’s Sunday Express (The New Indian Express edition) had a major typo in its mid-page features. It was in Soli Sorabjee’s Soliloquies section. A reference to President Obama is spelt as President Osama. Such a mistake appearing in a national newspaper does call for action, either on the newspaper’s part by apologising before it becomes [...]
5 Sep
Sunday Expresso (not a typo)
Shades of Sanghvi – Vir Sanghvi is one of the highlights of the New Sunday Express. His writings have led to a new-found respect for this veteran editor who makes realistic sense in an age where news features are relegated to pompous high-pitched, rabble rousing ‘insights’. Today’s feature from Sanghvi brings into clear picture a [...]
1 Sep
Fixed establishments – Match Fix 2.0
The match fixing controversy that has engulfed the Pakistani team indicates one thing – the widespread betting in matches would not have gone on without the blessings of the Pakistani cricket establishment. Surfing through the news channels I came across Boria Majumdar‘s comment on Times Now. The usually over enthusiastic Boria made a justified comment [...]
9 Jan
Good Samaritans?
Morning news – Depressing but how true? I woke up this morning to NDTVs breaking news on scenes captured by a freelancer of a cop fighting for his life by the side of the highway as a convoy of ministers stopped and stared. Stopped and stared! Well that’s what it looked like on film as [...]
1 May
When a vote skipped a beep
Finished voting yesterday morning. However the jury is out as to whether my sister’s vote was recorded. Managed to click a few pics at our polling booth in Bockapatna government school. With regard to my sister’s vote, no alarm went off when she pressed the button. The poll officials seemed clueless as to what the [...]
30 Apr
Blaaak, waaack, kraaack….. blumph
About the headline. I just could not help myself. Reached Mangalore this morning after another stinking journey in the volvo. A guy in the back seat of the bus puked all over himself and someone else, ran up to the drivers cabin and ended up puking even more right next to the driver. I remember [...]
