Reading about former Indian cricketers Karsan Ghavri and Anshuman Gaekwad not knowing that the old man chatting with them was during a World Cup cricket match in England, was Sir Len Hutton, was as bad as Tony Grieg and Hylton Ackerman allowing another old man to pick up their luggage and load it in the [...]
Archive for January, 2011
A Happy Republic, are we?
Posted: January 26, 2011 in CorruptionTags: Income Tax Department, India, Politicians, Prime Minister
No better day than this for a few thoughts on the state of the nation and where we are headed. Sixty-one years after India became a Republic it’s on the brink of disarray. There is no government worth its name. Politicians, hoodlums and so-called Maoists are generally running crooked parallel governments everywhere in the country. [...]
When I began my career in journalism with the Maharashtra Herald in 1985, the one person I ‘feared’ was my editor S.D. Wagh. I think it was his demeanour that scared the crap out of me or probably the fact that he was THE EDITOR. Since he did not know me, we hardly spoke and [...]
It’s been fun, while it lasted
Posted: January 20, 2011 in MediaTags: Journalism, journalist, media students
It’s been six years since I quit the print media and floundered into Information Technology, Corporate Communication and teaching – I don’t want to call it ‘academics’ because I don’t think I am qualified to call myself an ‘academic’. But, recently, I returned to the scene of the crime (metaphorically speaking), which I had left [...]
When someone sends us a link on Facebook asking us to support some cause, quite often we do it so mechanically. Do we really, understand what that cause means to the person who launched it? How easily we sympathise with someone with the words “I know how you feel.” When in effect, nine times out [...]
