Excuse me, but where does this moral culture really exist, except in the fantasies of those that the media are hyping up as India's moral brigade. In the small towns and villages of India ??? Where 10 times more women are raped and molested, abused, physically assaulted and mutilated for the mere crime of being [...]
Did Karl Marx predict this ecomomic meltdown ?
"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take [...]
Davos World Economic Forum – the fixers ?
I cant help laughing. I see TV coverage of all the world's bussiness, economic and political leaders gathering together to network and party over a weekend. And the world press says "they are discussing how to save the world from the current financial mess" Hang on, are these not just the people that caused the [...]
Ganga, The Girl Child
NImi is a partition baby in the truest sense. She was born in a train carrying refugees from Pakistan to India. Many did not make it. Nimi almost did not. Not because of the savagery of those times. But because of a savagery that exists even now. In abundance. Because Nimi was bundled up in [...]
Rahman and the Oscars
I am really happy for A R Rahman. He is a musical genius, and deserves everything he has got. In fact I gave him the title "Mozart of Madras" and it caught on. But does the West really get his art and his genius ? I remember getting into an argument with Andrew Lloyd Webber [...]
Shekhar Kapur is an Animal Abuser
Check this out. it's really funny http://www.desinuts.com/2009/01/26/shekhar-kapur-animal-abuser/
Girls beaten up in a Mangalore restaurant
It is well known that men who become the moral police for women are sexually immature and insecure about themselves. It is a condition that arises mostly from the environment they are brought up in, dominated by or taught to disrespect the other sex. It is a condition that if not checked, can lead to [...]
Happy Republic Day, but what are we celebrating ?
Used to be such fun. Getting ready early in the morning, putting on your woollies with my mom trying to get us going as early as possible. To see the parade in Delhi from as vantage a point as possible. It was such a event. As a boy of course my favourite were the armed [...]
The Idiot box is so much more idiotic now
With the levels of soaps degrading everyday, news being turned into soap opera, and the complete inability to tell the difference between one reality soap and another, many people are nostalgic of the Doordarshan days when series such as Hum log, Udaan, Shyam Bebegal's Bharat Ek Khoj, Malgudi Days and Govind Nihilani's terrific adaptation of [...]
Did Heath Ledger really leave us a year ago ?
The New York Post asked me to write a tribute to Heath Ledger on the anniversary of his passing. It seems just yestrday. Time, say philosophers, mystics and quantum scientists is an illusion. Before the Big Bang there was Eternity. Beginnings and Ends are just means to contextualize our lives within our limited perceptions of [...]