Talkies Mumbai correspondent BombayDosti writes in from somewhere near Mumbai, on Raj and what could possibly be wrong with the Indian Raj.  The debate is now about how many migrants come to Mumbai.Raj’s share of prime time on TV; whether Ambani feels he is Gujarati or Maharashtrian, how Bachchan needs to build schools in [...]

Sohrabuddin was killed in a fake encounter,said the CBI and the Supreme Court. With Gujarat Elections around the corner Modi put it this way, as NDTV reported Modi asked the crowd, ”What should be done to a man who stored illegal arms and ammunition? You tell me what should have been done to Sohrabuddin?” The crowd replied, [...]

Here’s looking at you Germania, Goethe,Leibnitz, Kant, Karl Marx, Nietzsche, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Fahrenheit, Röntgen, Hertz, Hegel and Hitler Kant, Hegel, Marx and then Hitler – the “germ” is always there For anyone out there crouched in their prison cell, who cannot hear the ocean, who thinks “secular” and “progressive” are [...]

Ha Papa Bear has spoken. What a long wait it was oh Emperor of the Hindu hearts, papa we missed you so. Thackeray who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, made an emotional appeal to the Marathis saying there was a conspiracy to separate Mumbai from Maharashtra and it would not be “tolerated”. “The city will burn if [...]

The Journalist and the Prostitute   “What is you name ?” The Indian journalist covering the Bangladesh war asked the prostitute“Selma”“Tell me the truth, what is your real name”“Gauri““Then why did you lie”“Aren’t you a Hindu , I assumed a Muslim name to give you the turn on of invasion” - O V Vijayan’s Gurusagaram   The Poison of Inheritance It [...]