I went, I listened, and left depressed. I am talking about this much-hyped concert that happened on Saturday.
Indian music icons Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, M Balamurali Krishna and L Subramanian will come together to perform on a single platform on March eight in the city.
It was supposed to be the first-ever jugalbandi of its kind, [...]
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
It’s pretty easy, but I’ll still ask: who said this? No Googling.
We must hand it to Dilip D’Souza. It takes only a particular genius of perversion to come up with this kind of comparison. Ordinary mortals lack this talent (pasted the full post here).
Of two recent incidents — women molested in Juhu on New Year’s Day, Sydney Test mess — which one stimulated more press coverage? [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby announce the partial opening of the Hall of India’s Most Loathsome. Please head there and leave your comments/thoughts.
One morning, a cheerful gentleman arrived at my house and introduced himself as an employee of Bank of India. He persuaded me to open a savings account and promised flawless service. His appearance resembled somebody very familiar but I was unable to place him. His demeanor and behaviour revealed a fine upbringing rooted in culture [...]
This post is courtesy an inspiration I got from this superb list of (deservedly) loathsome public figures in the US (thanks, Atanu).
I don’t have time or patience to do brief, dirty-writeups on fifty most loathsome public figures of India. I’m limiting that number to just ten.
You might disagree with my selections….
Krish is back with a real gem after a long time. We’d kind of missed this one for a while. From comments on this post:
krish Says:
November 30, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Dude, how do you bullshit with a straight face?
Praful Bidwai pitches in with lots of acid against Buddhadeb and Left goons in this interesting center-page article in the Slimes. Whereas his criticism of the Left is blistering, his article as a whole is immeasurably clever. Offstumped digs up a similar (earlier) denouncement from Bidwai and correctly observes that the criticism is
…a masterpiece in [...]
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Arsenals for the People’s Revolution
Guns, tanks, swords, knives, and bombs are not the only weapons to carry out the People’s Revolution. The CPI-M shows what else is required.
CPI-M cadres who were denied jobs in local factories ransacked a party office, beat up leaders and later locked them up in a shop in the Sagarbhanga area today. The district party [...]