This week, for the humour column, the joke turned out to be on me. My idea for this week’s piece was to catch the film Madras Café, apparently centred on Lankan Tamils, LTTE and Rajiv Gandhi Assassination — a sensitive and emotive subject in these parts — and write a responsible report filled with tasteless jokes on John Abraham. Probably… Read more →
The World Athletics Championship is currently underway in Moscow. The headline news so far has been: 1) The name Bolt is the world fastest in the 100m pun 2) Most of the medal-winning performances have been turned in by athletes not wearing any undergarment. Okay, Okay. There has been some impressive show too from athletes wearing undergarments. The thing to… Read more →
New Delhi: “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny…” thus dramatically begins Jawaharlal Nehru’s first Independence Day speech, which to this day nobody knows how it ends. Because, let us face it, howsoever historic the moment may have been, it was still an Independence Day speech, hence boring. Nobody really pays much attention to it. For instance, Indira… Read more →
This week, without waiting for A K Antony, we went ahead and increased our defence preparedness. When I say we, I mean my apartment complex association. Our apartment complex is now getting CCTV cameras as a much-needed support for our security personnel, whose armoury so far consisted of — we had entrusted our entire lives and belongings to this —… Read more →
Plus: Is this a step towards privatization of Rlys, an analysis from Second Host New Delhi/Mumbai: In a predictable and inevitable goof-up, IRCTC’s (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’s) online passenger reservation system has been delivering tickets for the Hindi film Chennai Express to those looking for reservations in the Mumbai to Chennai Chennai Express. The mix up came to… Read more →
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