The God of Indian cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, has decided to retire. God’s don’t fade away, they endure. Youtube videos of Sachin taking on Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Shoiab Akhtar, will remain forever, I am sure recording millions more hits. I am going to be watching Sachin again and again, in Perth, South Africa, Sharjah, like…
Author: Siddharth Srivastava
Journalist
Reading Rahul Gandhi’s “nonsense”
Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi has a reputation of appearing without warning and also disappearing without a trace, which is not easy given ubiquitous 24-hour news channels, citizen reporters, conspicuous Z+ security, CCTV cameras, social media activists, etc. Still, Gandhi manages to parachute (not literally) into a Dalit household from nowhere especially when UP…
Narendra Modi is PM candidate
As expected, Narendra Modi has been declared the Prime Ministerial candidate for BJP. Despite the smiles and garlands during the anointment in New Delhi, the absence of sulking LK Advani was glaring. His protégé Sushma Swaraj could not have looked sadder. For a moment, I thought she might burst out crying. She quickly left the…
The making of a rapist
My attention would not have been drawn to 10-year old Kaku under usual circumstances. It did, as our collective consciousness has been seized by the recent Shakti Mills gang rape in Mumbai and earlier in Delhi that resulted in the death of the brave Nirbhaya. I recently met Kaku just by chance at a park…
India’s food security sham
(Re-posting piece I wrote in July due to relevance today) The food security bill that aims to feed 800 million Indians is a sham hammered into existence by the Congress party eyeing the poor as a big vote base. Blinded by the greed of narrow political gains the ordinance is just symbolic and also anachronistic….
Its the Indian economy, stupid
I have not watched Chennai Express as yet. I like to catch the usually low IQ blockbuster Bollywood movies at the multiplex, to marvel the immensely successful Hindi movie mindless masala business model play out yet again. With CE, there is also the added incentive of viewing Deepika Padukone’s fab abs on big screen. Lot…
The case of Durga Shakti Nagpal (IAS)
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal as she dared to take on the sand mafia operating under her jurisdiction. Inspired by her, there are going to be some doubly divinely named daughters born hereon, though I am not sure parents would encourage them to study hard for a career…
The attack on English in India
According to BJP president Rajnath Singh, the English language has been a “destroyer of Indian culture’’ and has caused a “great loss’’ to India. Anybody who has heard Singh speak will know his mother cannot be proud of her son’s English speaking abilities. Going by Singh’s logic, we should have been better off without our…
The right to kiss in India
According to recent news reports, video clips of couples being intimate with each other while traveling in the Delhi metro have been uploaded on porn websites. I use the metro whenever there is need. Mostly the coaches are jam packed compelling an orgy of intimacy with every passenger in the vicinity. It is similar to…
Indias food security sham
The food security bill that aims to feed 800 million Indians is a sham hammered into existence by the Congress party eyeing the poor as a big vote base. Blinded by the greed of narrow political gains the ordinance is just symbolic and also anachronistic. I have no doubt billions of tax money will be…
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