We have yet another instance of a VVIP, this time Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan being questioned by security officials at an American airport. Apparently Khan was gently quizzed by a lady official for ten minutes, the time normally taken by disembarking passengers to visit the loo, if there is a bit of rush. Usually,…
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Should porn be banned in India?
India’s Supreme Court is deliberating banning Internet pornography. The trigger has been the brutal sexual and physical assault on a 5-year old girl in Delhi by two perverts, allegedly after drinking alcohol and watching porn. Interestingly there is no call to ban sale of alcohol, which is a much greater social evil due to direct…
Dont Let Pawar Pee
There are many problems in India, including drought. Ajit Pawar’s crass pee remark to fill up empty dams in Maharashtra is unacceptable. The state faces large scale farmer suicides due to crop failure brought about by drought and lack of irrigation facilities. Pawar probably thought he did a Jaspal Bhatti or a Navjot Singh Sidhu…
Enduring Indian Gossip
Some relationships seem to be forever under scrutiny. In politics, there is the one between Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. Despite the analysis and speculation, Manmohan-Sonia plane of operation is clear – do as she says or don’t do anything at all. Given such sound understanding that has stood the test of two uneventful tenures…
T20 Cricket Fever in India
It is T20 IPL cricket season in India again. Able bodied young, old, superannuated, dropped, playing cricketers from across the world have converged to try and hit the ball like Chris Gayle, the Don Bradman of capsule cricket, with added ability to do the Gangnam dance. T20 cricket has subsumed evening prime time at the…
MMS Scandal in India
There has been another MMS sex scandal in India to add to numerous others involving usual suspects actors, actresses, models, school kids, god men and politicians, not necessarily in that order. This could be a sociological study of people in this country having some fun, a few on the side. The one’s I can recall…
Pardon Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt should be pardoned and allowed to do what he does best, act in movies. I don’t know him. I don’t belong to the film fraternity. I am not producing or directing his film. I am not his booze or exercise buddy, though I am a big fan of Munnabhai-I & II and Dutt’s…
Another Coalition Tamasha in India
India is in the midst of another tamasha linked to coalition politics with the DMK withdrawing support to the Congress-led government. The DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi is a first-rate example why no job beats being a politician in this country. He is nearing 90 and harbors hopes to be chief minister of Tamil Nadu again….
Age of Sex in India
What should be the age of consensual sex, 16 or 18? The debate in India is about the right of a 16-year old girl to legally say that she had sex willingly. Otherwise any boy or man can be criminally charged irrespective of what the girl’s views are. This question is a no-brainer in the…
An Air Ticket to Goa
Will air travel in India become cheap again? Will typical Indian middle class families comprising noisy unruly kids and carting food neatly packed in multiple tiffin boxes, be able to afford a plane ticket again? Just a few years back this was possible. The thrifty train traveling population of India that likes to pack homemade…
Siddharth Srivastava 