When does a mode of protest cease to create shock and merely generate laughter? Or worse, indifference?
When Iraqi TV journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi hurled his size 10 sneakers at the deserving George W. Bush, the world reacted with shock and awe. Of course, the computer games and the jokes about journos entering press conferences in only [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Have Shoe, Will Throw
Posted in I Myself, Politics, tagged George Bush, Hitesh Chauhan, Indian Elections 2009, LK Advani, Manmohan Singh, Muntadher al-Zaidi on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dreaded Phrase: Fat To Fit
Posted in I Myself, tagged Adhyayan, Bhagnani, fat, Fit, fitness, Jackky, Kapoor, Sinha, Sonakshi, Sonam, Suman, Tendulkar on April 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Why do they do this all the time? I mean, look at the picture above. This is a young man called Jackky Bhagnani, son of Bollywood producer Vashu Bhagnani. If you believe what you read, Jackky weighed 130 kg and had a waistline measuring 44 inches only a couple of years ago. Having shed 60 [...]
Lalgarh Comes Calling
Posted in Kolkata, tagged Chhatradhar, Kolkata, Lalgarh, Mahato, Maoists, West Bengal on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was back at home from work on Friday evening, and sitting in front of the TV, when a colleague called to say she still hadn’t got home because… some people had shot arrows at the bus in which she was travelling, and that had caused a tyre to burst. All this on Mayo Road, [...]
Thank God It’s South Africa!
Posted in Cricket, tagged IPL 2009, South Africa, T20, Twenty20 on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having despairingly watched cricket die a slow death on pancake-flat Indian — make that subcontinental — pitches, and the odds increasingly stacked against hapless bowlers, it is inexpressibly refreshing to see the latter get some of their own back in the Twenty20 format, of all things.
The primary reason has to be the location shift to [...]
Thank You Dr Subramanian Swamy
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You may remember Dr Subramanian Swamy of the Janata Party — perhaps the only reason why we have not forgotten Bofors and Quattrochi. Well, a friend sent me a link to the Janata Party website which contains a fascinating section called ‘Do You Know Your Sonia?’ written, of course, by Swamy. And since the Indian [...]
The Flock effect
Posted in Internet, tagged browser, Firefox, Flock, web on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
They say you don’t need Flock if you have Firefox. Well, I’ve been using Firefox for a long time and I downloaded Flock only today. But I don’t think I’ll be switching over to Firefox again soon, because just Flock seems to have so much to keep a browser busy. Or perhaps I’m just easily [...]
Rajasthan…Desert Dreams
Posted in Travel, tagged Rajashtan, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Chittor, Udaipur, Jaisalmer on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rajasthan… land of kings… is just about the most overused phrase to describe the state, but I couldn’t start this piece without it. The thing about Rajasthan is that there’s so much of royal grandeur on display that you generally overlook everything else, and the loss is yours. At the same time, it is impossible [...]
