Archive for January, 2010

On staying connected…

Posted: January 31, 2010 in friendship

Friendship is a funny thing. You can talk to someone after 30 years and it’s like nothing’s changed in all these years. And you can stay next door to someone for months and not talk to the person over such a trivial issue. Isn’t it a waste of life? You don’t keep in touch with [...]

Why are people in broadcast media so touchy when asked if 20-somethings on TV channels are trivialising sports coverage?

Guilty conscience?

Posted: January 27, 2010 in Uncategorized

Here are a few minor queries for those of you who were perturbed, by what I wrote in my last blog post..’gossip…” Why were you so perturbed? Did you suffer pangs of guilt, because realisation hit home that you had done something you shouldn’t have done? How did you assume I was referring to you? [...]

On sadists and gossip…

Posted: January 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

Today, my housemaid came in looking really hassled. Her son, a student at a school close by was beaten up with his by his peers with school belts. His crime? He complained about them to the Principal as they had come to school wearing jeans on Republic Day. The poor kid, who was only doing [...]

What a blooper!

Posted: January 25, 2010 in Government of India, Media
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The DAVP blooper with the picture of a Pakistani Air Chief must ran among the most embarrassing in recent times. It’s not some silly newspaper or TV channel, but a department of the Central Government. But at least raised a few laughs…