Watch this YouTube Video. Barkha Dutt actually had a talk show on whether we should “regulate blogging!” What does “regulate” smack of?
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=iLiDTX5xhv8
That kind of explains some things in the Kunte episode.
Tags: Barkha Dutt, Barkha Dutt Threatens Kunte, Bloggers, Blogging, Free Speech, NDTV’s Legal Notice to Chyetanya
From the chaos of outrage in the entire Indian blogging world emerges a lone (so far in my reading on the issue) dissenting voice. Let’s hear her out. At the outset, she says that her stance is “neither in favor of Kunte nor Dutt, I just think the Bloggers are blowing it out of proportion…” [...]
So Chyetanya Kunte is the latest victim of media intimidation. I’m not going to rehash the same excellent points made by other bloggers. Here’s a partial list:
NDTV’s Assault on Free Speech (the best)
When ‘free speech’ bears a price tag
Shame on NDTV and Barkha Dutt
A bedtime story about blog freedom
Throw the Constitution Away
The Indian media–specifically, television [...]
Update: Thanks to a commenter, I had excluded Bhyrappa’s Grahana in my list of his minor works.
Preface
Trying to write about SL Bhyrappa’s works is akin to trying to enclose the Sun in your fist. It’s impossible and even if it were possible, you can’t enclose its entire brilliance because it’s so all-encompassing. At best, you [...]
I am delighted and honoured. More than being an award to me, I believe it’s an award for serious, objective, historical scholarship. It’s a recognition for the craft of the historian who tells history as it unfolds without having to take a particular political line. It’s very encouraging.
– Padma Bhushan Ramachandra Guha, on receiving the [...]
Indonesia seems hell-bent on achieving fast-track Islamic Statehood. Here’s the latest gem.
“The yoga practice that contains religious rituals of Hinduism including the recitation of mantras is “haram” (forbidden in Islam),” Ma’ruf Amin, a spokesman for the group, said.
“Muslims should not practise other religious rituals as it will erode and weaken their Islamic faith,” he added.
The [...]
I wrote this to sum up what Slumdog Millionaire is all about. For your reading pleasure.
Boyle oh Boyle I see thy vain toil
About the plight of the Indian soil
Spent burning several midnights’ oil
Hath yielded rich fruit after much appreciative roil,
Boyle oh Boyle!
Oh but what a grand masterpiece you’ve emitted taking after
The [...]
Picture this: drinks flowing liberally in a pub, teenagers dancing in merry abandon until late in the night. Bang, smash, and crash comes a sudden violent noise. Members of a certain Sri Ram Sena have struck! Before the young uns can realize what’s happening, they’re thrashed. They’re followed out of the pub and thrashed mid-street. [...]
Thanks to Barbar Indian for covering this. I mostly ignore Tehelka nowadays because it is more nuisance than is worth my attention. But the real reason is its self-advertised unscrupulousness. When this gets dangerously intolerable, my itching hands assume a mind of their own.
BV Seetaram, and his wife were travelling in Udupi district, Karnataka. [...]
This was published today in the Pioneer. Comments/criticism welcome as always.
Preserving national identity
As long as the Indian collective consciousness preserved the primacy of Vedic national unity, India could be invaded but not broken. And it is to this that we must return to keep India united
Last week, two seemingly unconnected articles appeared about India. They [...]
