‘It’s the only way of survival for airline companies’ New Delhi: Embattled corporate tycoon Vijay Mallya today appealed to the Central government to seriously consider declaring hijacking of planes as completely legal and allow airline companies to incorporate it as a formal business practice. ‘That’s the only way left for us to possibly make some money, as our operations don’t… Read more →
Recently I was down with extreme amoebiosis, the result of which was that I spent nearly three days feeling that at least in the future they better build houses with toilets that come with attached bedrooms. Anyway, when I went to my general physician, he, after the routine scrutiny, dropped the doctorly line: ‘this thing seems to be on the… Read more →
‘Laxman nearing his personal milestone of 50 may have distracted Tendulkar’ New Delhi: Cricketer turned commentator Sunil Gavaskar has suggested that the fact that V V S Laxman was reaching his personal milestone of an individual half century may have been ‘slightly distracting’ to Sachin Tendulkar in the pursuit of the national milestone of scoring his 100th international hundred. Gavaskar… Read more →
When Markendya Katju, the new chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI), made those scathing remarks against the media in an interview to Karan Thapar recently, you can understand how I, as a senior working journalist, would have felt. I was naturally shocked that someone actually managed to speak in lengthy sentences in a Karan Thapar interview. For, as… Read more →
Question: What is the difference, in terms of viewing experience, between those who make it to a Formula One (F-1) circuit to watch a race and those who cannot make it there? Answer: Nothing. Motor racing, in general, is a technically advanced sport designed in such a manner that you get to watch the least amount of action when you… Read more →
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