(This is the second part of the year-end compilation) May Many skeletons — no, that is not a reference to Nita Ambani on botox — tumble out of the IPL cupboard as spot-fixing allegations involving players and team owners emerge in shameful profusion. Apparently, betting syndicate had paid huge sums of money to, among others S Sreesanth, to bowl badly. … Read more →
Yearend compilations are a great tradition in newspapers, because they allow the editors to fill an entire page without doing any real work. The readers also love them as they have a full-page of stuff that they can conveniently ignore. When it comes to regular news, readers are totally different: They inconveniently ignore. So how do you write something that… Read more →
This is the season of Carnatic music, and every conversation invariably revolves around it. But you cannot take part in it because the problem with Carnatic music is it is too technical, and frankly you are at a stage when even additions involving three-digit numbers is way technical to you. But luckily for you, we are around, proven experts in… Read more →
New Delhi: The Supreme Court’s order upholding the Constitutional validity of Section 377 of the IPC raises uncomfortable questions over the Constitutional validity of Constitution itself, as it basically has ‘Founding Fathers’ only, if you get our drift. Anyway, according to legal experts, the biggest worry on Section 377, which seeks to come down on things against ‘order of nature’,… Read more →
When there was a feeling that the Aadhaar card might be mandatory, there was lukewarm response from the public. But now, when the government has clarified that it is not compulsory, and the Supreme Court is also of the view that it has no legislative backing, men and women and clueless kids are queuing up in droves to enroll for… Read more →
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