Sometimes things that people do can make you very emotional. No, I’m not referring to the mastery of Sachin Tendulkar as he raced to his first one-day double hundred or the below-par performance of SRK’s Knight Riders! On Wednesday last (March 24) I went to the under-grad campus of SIMC for some work and one [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts….
Posted: March 25, 2010 in Pakistan, USTags: Pakistanis, Trojans, US
My former colleague and good friend, Candice, now a marketing manager at Vodacom in far away Dar es Salam, believes I should rename my blog “Mohan Sinha ko Gussa kyo aata hain!” I shouldn’t be ranting and getting mad, she feels. There should be self-expression. She thinks I should be writing on Aloo tikki! I [...]
In Maya, we have the politician we deserve
Posted: March 16, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Hindustan Times, Mayawati, Politicians, Uttar Pradesh
On my first day at Hindustan Times, Lucknow, sometime in November 2001, I was sitting at my desk reading the newspapers, when a headline caught my eye: “Amarmani Tripathi declared absconder” Amarmani Tripathi is a politician-cum-criminal currently serving a jail term for the murder of a poetess. He knew the fine art of surviving in [...]
Women, the new ‘reserved’ category
Posted: March 9, 2010 in Women's Reservation BillTags: Parliament, women, Women's Reservation Bill
Do women need to be reminded on a particular day every year, that they are stronger than men? I don’t need some silly ‘Day’ to tell me that women are a damn sight smarter and stronger than men – except when they are on a two-wheeler or behind the wheel of a car! Then they’re [...]
A Kiran crash….a war hero remembered
Posted: March 4, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: 1971 Indo-Pak war, Kiran, war
When I heard about the crash of the Kiran aircraft at a Naval show in Hyderabad yesterday, I remembered an incident that occurred just after the Indo-Pak war in 1971. I met a man, who for a lot of us kids was our first war hero. Only we didn’t know how big a hero. That [...]
