I know, I know – stupidity hath no bounds. Especially coming from India’s eminent political party which claimed credit for the Slumdog Oscar win : In an unmistakable resonance of the previous NDA government’s `India Shining’ slogan, Congress floated the idea of an `achieving India’ and listed among the milestones the Indo-US nuclear deal, Chandrayaan, […]
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Of pink chaddis and Valentines Day
Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Muthalik was kept in preventive custody. Pink chaddis went out to the Shri Ram Sene office, as duly observed by the news channels. The pubs were bharo-ed. The Bajrang Dal and other chauvinistic outfits which would have otherwise threatened bodily harm to people found “celebrating” Valentine’s Day turned non-violent, […]
Read the rest of this entry »McCain’s desperation shows
I have never watched so much CNN in my life. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve actually watched re-runs of the same program, on CNN. My husbands kids me about it – calls it my favorite channel. I have never read up, or followed politics as much as I follow now, via Salon, The […]
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Earlier this week, we found out that $150000 was spent on pretty-ing up Sarah Palin. So the hockey-mom who tries to identify with the Joe-sixpacks and the common man, shops at Neiman Marcus and Saks. Nice. If I was someone contributing to the McCain-Palin campaign, I would be pretty mad right now.Yeah, you send them […]
Read the rest of this entry »Paying taxes is unpatriotic (and so is obeying the law)
This election is pretty surreal. It started with McCain choosing Palin as his running-mate, and then increased when we discovered that Palin couldn’t open her mouth without committing gaffes (seeing Russia from her house indeed !), or give straight answers during the VP debate. As a VP, or as a President (and I don’t even […]
Read the rest of this entry »Of personal integrity and the race for the White House
When this race started, I sort of thought of Obama and McCain as equals in my head – both basically decent men, who would do their best for the country. However, as the days have gone by, Obama is starting to come off as the better man, cool-tempered even in a crisis, reasonable, and more […]
Read the rest of this entry »A state with no teeth
In an email from my Dad yesterday, he mentioned that they weren’t venturing to the markets that day, because of the Gujjar protest in the NCR. His remarks were wry, in that he said that people are protesting to be declared backward ! Indeed the reservation policy has taken on a twist with these protests […]
Read the rest of this entry »Of hem-lines and court-cases
Hot off yesterday’s presses (the television channels had a field day speculating) news of Sania Mirza’s decision to not play in the Bangalore Open. Sania, who’s only 21, has had a lot of “flak” from everyone who has a mouth, camera and media access, apparently. Her clothes are indecent, not covering her sufficiently, say fundie […]
Read the rest of this entry »Subtle images of disempowerment
NDTV has been advertising the advent of it’s new channel NDTV Imagine, which starts Jan 21st. One of the advertisements is for the soap “Radha ki betyaan kuch kar dikhayengi”. From the web “Radha Ki Betiyaan is the story of a proud mother who instils the right values in her daughters and believes in their […]
Read the rest of this entry »Of ghar-jamai jokes and their side-effects
My cousin Ashish is getting married. A love marriage to his non-Punjabi colleague . Both Ashish and Manisha are MBA grads. Working for MNCs in Delhi. Manisha’s family is very well-educated and progressive. Her Dad is no more and she and her Mom live in Delhi. Her married brother lives in Bangalore. Since Ashish is […]
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