Category: Current Events

We all constantly debate on whether IPL is real cricket, or will it destroy the cricket that we all grew up on. But one fact is indisputable. It has changed the financial structure of cricket into a major international sporting tournament, that will in time compete with football. And it is very very entertaining. So [...]

Now Shree Shree Ravi Shankar has got into the act condemning Hussein's paintings of Indian Goddesses in the nude. I did not say naked. There is a difference. Nude implies a point of view of the artist, and having seen the paintings I would definitely say that that the artists, in exploring the Goddesses as [...]

I am conflicted. I was horrified to read in the press today that Rhino's and Tigers are being farmed for assumed medicinal properties of the Rhino's horns and many other unmentionable parts of the Tiger. My learning on wild life and ecology, the extinction of species bothered me. But the question that came was, why [...]

Subsequent to the Bomb attack in Pune, the Home Minister of India virtually accepted his Governments inability to protect it's citizens from carefully planned and targeted bomb attacks. His stunning words of acceptance of defeat : "Their has been no Intelligence failure, or any failure on part of the Police or the State Government. We [...]

I want to see the film. I saw the trailers and sensed that I was watching a very mature performance from Sharrukh Khan. I sensed that after Monsoon Wedding this may be another film that actually crosses over internationally. But I want to see the film and I cannot. The political chess game that the [...]

After China stunned the world with the incredible show they put up for the opening of the Beijing Olympics. I do hope we in India have something at least more spectacular than our ever dependable star acts on stage. Actually they are very good and most of them (and the best really is A R [...]

Have set up this blog as a discussion piece for participants who had many questions but there was no time to take them up.

So tell me Mr Jobs - why did you make me spend $ 2000 on a upscale Macbook Pro just two weeks ago ? I am stupid I guess. I should have waited for the Ipad. Been looking at live feeds of Steve Job's launch of the new Apple tablet - the Ipad. It is [...]

As the most important annual networking weekend between business, economic policy makers, bankers and politics ? Yes, Davos is unbeatable. But to be touted as the place where people get together to solve the economic problems of the World is a little silly. Most of the people attending caused the ecomonic problems of the world. [...]

This is from Mariana : MJ was a non-literal artist. And the world has responded to him playing an irrelevant soap opera. There are many levels, messages and expressions of inner search in this gentle soul's work, this soul from Gary, Indiana. He asked us to look in the mirror and the world turned the [...]