Lodged in an undisclosed location in Tihar New Delhi: The police today arrested social activist Anna Hazare for flouting government orders to come out of arrest here at the Tihar Jail, where he had defiantly lodged himself since yesterday, and where he will be have to be forcibly lodged following his latest arrest. On a day of rapidly-unfolding events, the… Read more →
‘The current inflation levels are unacceptable,’ Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said a few days back. As a humour writer I will straightaway accept that I cannot come up with a funnier line. The funniest part is no one can fathom at whom the entire statement is aimed. As the country’s Finance Minister, whose Ministry has to handle inflation, we… Read more →
Urges media to ‘stop focussing on just one player’ London: Just days after the defeat in the Lord’s Test, Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has conceded that the media’s unremitting focus on a single player was distracting and this was one of the reasons why his own bowling was relatively not ‘all that effective’ in the Test. ‘The media must understand… Read more →
Some unique trivia associated with cricket The biggest buzz ahead of the 2000th Test match ever tomorrow is naturally, considering the historicity of the moment, the court case that Harbhajan Singh has slapped on the company of Vijay Mallaya over a liquor ad featuring Mahendra Singh Dhoni. That the duo will turn up together tomorrow at the Lord’s adds more… Read more →
A critique of Karagattakaran and a templated-view of The Godfather Film reviews in publications, these days, strictly fall into two categories: 1.Un-understandable. 2.Unreadable. In the first, to comprehend the review of say, Goripalayam —- as run-of-the-mill as a film as they come — you need to be a post-doctoral expert in, say, Federico Fellini and T S Eliot. Because in… Read more →
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