Our Lady in Raisina Hill
OUR Lady is in Raisina Hill. History was made today when Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the country's first woman President, who favoured socially inclusive economic growth and unity [...]
July 2007
June 2007
Kalam Ready!
Ready it seems........... ........Kalanjittu pode!
On a weekend
Calvin: I've been thinking, Hobbes. Hobbes: On a weekend? Calvin: Well, it wasn't on purpose...... Have you kids heard the story of the most beautiful girl in the world marrying [...]
May 2007
India has made us. We must make Bharat.
Along comes a speech, though not quite often which summarises certain things we couldn’t completely articulate but was in the back of our minds. Whether it changes anything is not something [...]
Rs 50 for a horse
There has been an outbreak of glanders, a fatal bacterial disease, among the horses in Nainital. The government has ordered the diseased horses, 22 of them, be killed. NDTV story [...]
March 2007
Mother of all Nightmares
“…I am sure, thousands like me will be shocked by the Nandigram incident. Please, please have some regard for those who feel that socialism is not terrorism, but humanism; and [...]
Women’s Army and Jhansi Rani
“My short skirt is a liberation flag in the women’s army,” they read. “I declare these streets, any streets, my vagina’s country.” they read the Vagina Monologues aloud and then [...]
January 2007
Lets Burn Mumbai !
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 [...]
American Women
"A gentleman asked me to marry him and I said no," she recalled. "I told him, "ËœI'm just beginning to fly again, I'm just beginning to be me. Don't take [...]
December 2006
Our India is a Sufi
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" [...]
The Great Indian Wall
Hush baby..hush ! We are about to finish the wall, did anybody know ?..hell no ! The British miserably failed to accomplish this in 1905-11 and they called themselves the [...]
November 2006
Why is the Indian Muslim missing ?
The word on the street is "shock". If not the street, atleast in the power corridors of Delhi and the state capitals of India after the Sachar committee findings on [...]