Their aren’t Tigers like him around anymore

Childhood memories are the ones that remain for ever. I was in the Eighth Standard, when India won their first-ever series against the West Indies and England in 1971, under Ajit Wadekar. Holidaying in Ootacamund (now Udhagamandalam), at the Blue Mountain’s School, where my mother used to teach, I was told by her, one afternoon, [...]

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,200 times in 2010. That’s about 17 full 747s. In [...]

Time for a statutory warning?

“Facebook India users who indulge in personal and defamatory attacks and post offensive messages could face punishment up to three years under the various sections of the Information Technology Act. “ Will social networking sites, taking a leaf out of tobacco companies’ books, post such a warning on their sites, sometime in the future? One [...]

Don’t take life so seriously…

My favourite quote is “Don’t take life so seriously, no one gets out alive.” I’ve lived by those rules all these years and now as (according to some of my young friends) I am heading into the sunset, I am hardly going to change that view. I hope my students follow that dictum when they [...]

Giving the broadcast media a relook

During one of my lectures with media students we were analysing Operation Bluestar, the aftermath and the manner in which it was covered by the media – which wasn’t very much because of the total media blackout. In these days of 24×7 news coverage, and going by the coverage of the terror attacks in Mumbai, [...]