Archives for “Society & Culture”

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 ...


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 ...


Somebody Rescue Yogi Sikand

By admitting him into an insane asylum. Yeah, he's not (my mistake, confusing him for the original, Yoginder Yadav) the same statistical evil genius that ...


Wanted: Vintage Military Action

35th attempt in less than a year. 132-plus infiltration attempts again, in less than a year. Says this Indian Express report. Less than a fortnight after Pakistan promised ...


Happy Deepavali

This blog wishes you all a Happy, Prosperous and Safe Deepavali. Celebrate this festival of lights without crackers. Enough have exploded in four years.


The Game of Bogeys

I spent most of the last week working behind the scenes to foolproof my blog against its periodic bursts of becoming not reachable. Hence I ...


The White Tiger Redux

Meera beautifully weighs in with an open letter to Aravind Adiga. It proves one my pet-peeve theories that the biggest intellectual celebrity is also the ...


In the beginning of an essay on contemporary literary criticism, S.L. Bhyrappa dissects a Kannada short story, entitled Rotti (a dish made of rice flour) ...


Remembering Madhava Vidyaranya

It is Vijayadashami here in Karnataka, a hallowed tradition that celebrates both the victory and renewal of the spirit of Sanatana Dharma in South India. ...


The media machine with the full backing of the secular establishment is furiously spitting in the hope of running away. The Outlook front page is ...


This post is more an addendum to Barbar Indian's brilliant analysis of the Slimes' shocking duplicity in covering the persistent violence at Kandhamal. For more ...


The original article was titled Playing with Fire in Karnataka. Comments welcome. Burden of the cross Sandeep B Evangelists have been using dirty ...


Let’s Talk About Sex

I know the title of this post will get all kinds of visitors to this blog but everything has a price. Okay, so this is ...


The news of "braveheart" MC Sharma's tragic death is a few hours old now. Another story of a firehearted warrior dying on the call of ...


The Direction of this Blog

After about seven years of almost nonstop blogging, I have reached a decisive turn. I won't stop this blog or anything. I'll continue being rude ...


Deepavali Gift

This attack is an advance Deepavali gift to the Indian people from the kind folks of the Indian Mujahideen. I can picture a top gun ...


Has the real story of the Indian freedom struggle been told? If no, why do you think it is so? And how have so many ...


In a rare show of courage, the Indian Express reports some eyewitnesses accounts to the foul murder of Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati. Reproducing in full in ...


As we alight each step in the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati, we progressively discover the true nature of Christianity in ...


Barely two days after the ghastly murder of an 80-year old Swami, Somini SpinGupta sets the wheels in motion. This NYT report is a study ...


What is more shocking than the news that the anti-conversion Swami Laxmananda Saraswati was murdered in cold blood? It is the fact that he was ...


It has frequently been written that the incestuous world of Mumbai films forgets its differences and presents a united front when one of their own ...


Chop Kashmir off India so that I can party in Bombay seems to be Amit Varma's mantra. Varma's hypothetical equation of India=British Empire or whatever ...


Spare the Comics, Dammit!

It takes tremendous amounts of grotesque perversity to detect ulterior, sinister motives behind producing children's comics. That's perhaps why it takes only a Tehelka to ...


The Devil and the Actor

It's the season of Minority drum-beating again. If you are a conspiracy theorist, you will link Shabana Azmi's interview with Karan Thapar to the recent ...