My friend’s status message on facebook asks a simple question to Papa Bear (Emperor of the Hindu hearts) – If Sania becomes a Pakistani by marrying Shoaib Mallik, how is Sonia still Italian? It’s confusing. May be Thackerays were born into a matriarchal system, may be into a patriarchal system, may be they shouldn’t have been [...]

Friedman has a beautiful piece on America’s priorities and the precariousness of the national psyche. In his OP-ED in times, Friedman talks about “my president, whose agenda can be derailed at any moment by a jihadist death cult using exploding underpants.” And what does the war on terror give us? Better drones, body scanners and a lot of [...]

Lets go back to 1982, to the political vacuum of Telugu’s land. To Begumpet Airport. T. Anjaiah, the Chief Minister of Andhra, yet another Congress chief minister installed through the “revolving door policy” of the Congress high command, was humiliated at the Airport by a novice AICC General Secretary – Rajiv Gandhi. This was all that [...]

This essay of mine won the Discover India Essay prize at University of Michigan. The event was the first India Business Conference at Michigan. The Essay won me a certificate and whole lot of money in a beautifully organized and heavily attended India conference (though collecting the prize from one of Saffron India’s posterboys wasn’t [...]

It can’t get better – My Man is going to wrestle My Useless Man. It seems Raj Thackeray said “he would beat Patil with shoes for neglecting his constituency“. And Patil, who effectively beat our terrorist cousins out of India, said “If he has the guts to come out in the open, I challenge him to [...]