Last week when the rest of the country was probably pointlessly busy thinking about the impending elections and the choices that are on offer, we in Tamil Nadu, who are generally more intellectual and evolved in our choices, were concerned with the practical and pressing issue of the day, which is the seeming poor quality of animation in the trailer… Read more →
We have a thing in journalism during election time: We begin to uncontrollably wet our collective pants. The point is we choose to focus on politics and polls to the point of such distraction that tomorrow if for some reason World War III breaks out, the headline that you will most probably see is: ‘World goes to war: Will EC… Read more →
While the media have emotionally played up the formal end to the production of Maruti 800s, they have chosen not to focus on what has to be without doubt the bigger news from the automobile industry: The Ambassadors continue to be manufactured. Why Ambassadors continues to roll out of the assembly line has to be the second biggest conundrum facing… Read more →
This week, I did what I would have done if I had gone to Sochi, Russia where the Winter Olympics is currently on: Watch the Games on TV. Seriously, that is what professional sports reporters do on official assignments. At any rate, from the heights that press boxes are located at most venues, all sports appear to be played by… Read more →
Before Satya Nadella, who was made the CEO of Microsoft earlier this week, gets down to tackle the many challenges in his new post, I would like to draw his attention to the fact that Microsoft Word throws up ‘Satan’ as one of the alternatives when I key in his first name on it. While at it, another thing that… Read more →
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