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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hindustan Times’
In Maya, we have the politician we deserve
Posted: March 16, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Hindustan Times, Mayawati, Politicians, Uttar Pradesh
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Basking in reflected glory – as usual
Posted: October 9, 2009 in Nobel PrizeTags: Hindustan Times, IIT Kanpur, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
The dumbest headline I’ve read in years was the one that appeared in a national newspaper the other day. The story on the awardee of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan said “He liked idlis as a kid”. Maybe I am stupid, but how many Tam Brahms have you heard of, who did not [...]
Please click on the title or click here to read the Hindustan Times headline in the Mumbai edition today. In a nutshell, here’s what it says: It is time to stop the panic: SWINE FLU is going to be around and we’ll have to learn to live with it, say public health experts. Nearly half [...]
Sehwag – a rare breed
Posted: March 11, 2009 in cricketTags: Hindustan Times, Lucknow, ODI, Virender Sehwag
The other day I was talking cricket with a senior sports correspondent of a national agency and the topic veered around to Virender Sehwag. He joked that only God knows what makes that guy tick. He doesn’t display much footwork. He just stands there and clobbers the ball. Even the most astute cricketing brains in [...]
51 million jobs to go by 2009, screams the Hindustan Times headline today. This is like a broken record isn’t it? What’s a few million between friends? On a more ‘sombre’ note, I’ve just had a rude awakening after my first day on my own blog. I realize that since I am not an anonymous [...]
