Tweet Today, as many towns in Haryana burn and I see desperate Facebook pleas for help from people stuck in Rohtak or Panipat, I wonder how things came to this. How is it that one of the prosperous communities in Haryana is so desperate for reservations that they think it is okay to hold...
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Tweet I watched Dilwale last night. Here’s a few observations. 1. The movie, i can say with a lot of confidence, didn’t bomb because of Internet Hindus boycotting SRK. It earned it on sheer merit. 2. Oh Kajol, what miracle of medical science (or makeup) are you? She looks a couple of decades younger...
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Tweet This week social media has made two more people famous. Jasleen Kaur allegedly got harassed at a traffic signal, took a picture of the offender Sarabjit Singh, posted it on Facebook and sparked off massive outrage in her support. Sarabjit’s picture was shared thousands of times like he was a petty criminal, news...
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Tweet It’s been two years since my first book got published. It was a dream I had seen, to get published, to see my name on book shelves, to be able to tell a story I wanted to share, to reach out to the world and, ahem, to be famous. It didn’t take much...
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Tweet Dear Arnab, I tuned into Times Now yesterday and watched for a total of 23 seconds, which is about as much as I can watch it at a time; after all greatness must be consumed in small doses. During that time I gleaned that your headlines for the day were ‘#ShamedInAustralia’ and ‘Dhoni...
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Tweet I just watched the ‘India’s Daughter’ documentary. News flash for the Government of India – in this age of the Internet, banning a video will only ensure that everybody and their mother, daughter or, oh god what a travesty, girl friend, will watch it. More on that later. The whole episode of the...
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Tweet I just love being on a sabbatickle. Take a long leave. Go to the mountains. Relax. Though I must say English is a funny language. Not sure what’s the relation of a leave from work with tickling. Anyways. Sure my mother wasn’t too thrilled when I said I want to take a break. She was...
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Tweet Dear Barack, There is a song sung by a famous Pakistani singer which has been immortalized over years of being played on loop in Delhi’s Blue-line buses -‘accha sila diya tune mere pyaar ka, yaar ne hi loot liye ghar yaar ka.‘ (You repayed me well for my love by robbing my own house, you...
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Tweet The Media Circus was at her doorstep! Her worst fears were coming true. She called up the Big Boss but he didn’t take her call....
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Tweet The flavor of the month in India these days is freedom of speech. Arnab Goswami doesn’t let his panelists speak. Nitish Kumar doesn’t want to let Jitan Ram Manjhi speak. Our PM apparently doesn’t let his ministers speak. My wife doesn’t let me speak. AIB has been in the news. I’ll have to be...
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Tweet Today the great Indian democracy celebrates its 66th Republic Day. In the years since independence, we are now older, more mature, with streaks of grey beginning to show in the receding hairline. We’ve seen wars, we’ve seen elections, we’ve seen political fiefdoms, we’ve seen the Hindu rate of growth, and we’ve seen a presumably...
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Tweet Modi ji always said that he will promote industrial growth and especially manufacturing, under his Make in India campaign. True to form. there is a new small-scale industry in town. The industry of outrage. The industry of fear-mongering. The industry of spreading so many lies that it all starts appearing to be true. Because...
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Tweet I am a Hindu. I was born to Hindu parents and became one by default. Is my religion a part of my identity? Perhaps. Do I care much about it? Perhaps not. Do I believe in god? Certainly. Human life is too much of a miracle to not believe in god. For all...
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Tweet The last few weeks have been tough for most techies in India, or at least the non-IIT ones. As if the shameful burden of having studied at an institute lesser than the hallowed Indian Institute of Technology wasn’t already killing us, we’ve had to bear the ignominy of the screaming headlines in newspapers every...
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Tweet Dear Musharraf ji, Hope you get well soon. That foot stuck inside your mouth must hurt a lot, though I must say you still look quite fit and fine for someone with your advancing age and these terrible health issues. But you are quite amazing. A day after a heart-breaking tragedy hits your...
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