Did Karan Johar do the right thing by apologizing to Raj Thakery?
Many theaters in Pune and Bombay (Mumbai) had to take down the recently released Karan Johar produced film Wake up, Sid when some MSN (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) stopped its screening for using Bombay...
View ArticleShould there be a holiday on Gandhi Jayanti?
This was a valid, and a little less schismatic this time, question raised by Shashi Tharoor (again, on Twitter). Personally, I have no problem with national holidays and if Im not wrong we just have 3...
View ArticleBig Boss 3 to include one of the viewers – what about accessibility?
Yesterday both my wife and I were watching the opening episode of Big Boss 3 on Colors and in the end when Amitabh Bachchan announced that someone among the viewers may be invited to live in the house...
View ArticleArun Shourie’s thoughts on M.F. Hussein
One of my favorite writers is Arun Shourie and in one of his books he praised M.F. Hussein (the über painter who had to flee India and settle in the UAE for painting some major Hindu goddesses naked)...
View ArticleWhen objectivity turns into conspiracy mongering
I normally avoid writing blog posts in response to other blog posts (by other bloggers) but there is a blogger I really respect (I think there are just a couple of bloggers I keep a conscious effort...
View ArticleSimply earning lots of money doesn’t make you powerful
In the morning a client called and it was crystal clear from his tone that he is totally into bossing people around (he was making his secretary talk to me). He was trying to tell me how much he was...
View ArticleWhy atheism doesn’t make sense to me
I’m not a religious person in the conventional sense. I’m not into rituals, I’m not into chanting of hymns or mantras on a regular basis and I can’t even remember the last time I visited a place of...
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