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Sunday Special: Excerpts from an Autobiography: 1
Posted on August 8, 2009 | 29 CommentsWhen I landed in Delhi sometime in the January of 1967, Indira Gandhi was already ensconced in power…almost every other day witnessed hordes of “associations”–the Footpath Vendors Association, the Autorickshaw Drivers’ Association, the Slum Dwellers’ Association, the Onion Sellers’ Association and so on– parading on... -
Hindu Fundamentals Are Under Attack in a Different Way
Posted on August 4, 2009 | 116 CommentsWe have several specimens of people who call themselves Hindus: Tearing-my-chest-Hindus: Firebrand Hindus whose commitment to, and faith in Hinduism is unquestionable but usually lack the intellectual rigour to defend attacks on Sanatana Dharma. Intellectual Hindus: Scholarly types who are up for a good debate... -
This is Where Barkha Comes From
Posted on January 30, 2009 | 18 CommentsWatch 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,... -
An Elegy Written to Slumdog Millionaire on the Eve of the Indian Republic Day
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 8 CommentsI 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... -
Somebody Rescue Yogi Sikand
Posted on October 29, 2008 | 17 CommentsBy 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 the Congress party employs to get the pre-poll/exit poll predictions it wants. He now froths like a mongrel in heat... -
Wanted: Vintage Military Action
Posted on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment35th 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 to stop cross-border firing, its troops on Tuesday shelled Indian posts, again violating the ceasefire along the... -
Happy Deepavali
Posted on October 26, 2008 | 5 CommentsThis blog wishes you all a Happy, Prosperous and Safe Deepavali. Celebrate this festival of lights without crackers. Enough have exploded in four years. Tweet -
The Game of Bogeys
Posted on October 26, 2008 | 8 CommentsI spent most of the last week working behind the scenes to foolproof my blog against its periodic bursts of becoming not reachable. Hence I haven’t really dwelt upon the new mischief concerning Malegaon. Meanwhile, here’s Chandan Mitra, on how the media and secular fundamentalists... -
The White Tiger Redux
Posted on October 20, 2008 | 20 CommentsMeera 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 one with zero commonsense. I have read much about how you came to write this book. You have been quoted... -
When an Award is not Just an Award
Posted on October 16, 2008 | 23 CommentsIn 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) and cites numerous similar stories written in that vein. He observes that the story, like U.R. Anantha Murthy’s novel, Bharatipura... -
Remembering Madhava Vidyaranya
Posted on October 9, 2008 | 16 CommentsIt is Vijayadashami here in Karnataka, a hallowed tradition that celebrates both the victory and renewal of the spirit of Sanatana Dharma in South India. A tradition handed down to us from the time Harihara established the Vijaynagar empire after defeating the marauding Islamic armies... -
Now that the Nanavati Report is Out…
Posted on October 8, 2008 | 3 CommentsThe media machine with the full backing of the secular establishment is furiously spitting in the hope of running away. The Outlook front page is dripping with hate-everything-Hindu articles. It has fittingly roped in that house nigger par excellence, Pankaj Mishra to idyllically speculate on...