Shekhar Gupta (as always) puts forward an articulated argument why Pratibha Patil is not the right choice for President in his aptly titled column in The Indian Express – National Interest. Excerpts: The Congress’ guilt is not so much about who they chose for the job as it is about how it trivialised that job, [...]
Dwaipayan sent me this: Legendary Thai senator Mechai Viravaidya, who single-handedly crafted Thailand’s success story against AIDS, has inspired India to find its very own condom man. India’s National Aids Control Programme chief K Sujatha Rao, who just returned from Thailand after studying the phenomenon called “Mechai”, has decided to find a man who will [...]
You can call me politically ignorant, but the headline of this post was my first reaction on reading the ‘Breaking News’ scrolling on my office PC. The second thought that came to my mind, before the news came in about her real status, was that she might be Shivraj Patil’s wife. It seems I wasn’t [...]
I’m sure most of my generation who had watched the TVC version of this Nataraj Pencils print ad would still recall it. Here’s another vintage Nataraj Pencils TVC: To share/embed this video click hereDownload video [00:00:19 FLV 493 KB]
One of the high points of our post-school discussions (besides cricket and girls) was about which song was lifted from where. That was the era when Anu Malik reigned supreme. Gulshan Kumar was still alive and Nadeem Akhtar Saifi was not an absconder. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was yet to arrive in India and his [...]
A tag came my way from the girl from South of the Border, West of the Sun. It asks me to say nine things about me, one of which is a lie. Though it would’ve been a lot easier the other way around. In the past I received similar tags twice, the first required me [...]
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’ Saat Hindustani might not be the most watched of Indian films, but it marked the beginning of the career of Amitabh Bachchan, arguably the most watched Indian film actor. In this 1969 film Amitabh played the role of Anwar Ali, an Urdu aficionado from Ranchi, Bihar, who along with five different men [...]