Like many others, I like to follow Bollywood, the movies, stars, gossip, directors, songs, composers. There’s a lot of trash, but there’s plenty of creativity too. Off late I have been intrigued by the rising number of ex’s floating about. Everyone is someone’s ex. There is Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan’s ex and Ranbir Kapoor’s current…
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Father of a Daughter
It is a disadvantage being a father as the mother will always know and do better. I don’t argue the assertion – she creates the child, bears it for nine months, the bond develops before birth. Is it my fault? I am prepared to be pregnant, if only to save my wife the anxiety that…
Sachin, Modi, Nitish monumental achievements
The last few days, India celebrated and mourned the end of Sachin Tendulkar’s stupendous career, fostered by hard work, sweat and grit. Apart from the well deserved Bharat Ratna, Sachin’s grand career was topped off by a farewell speech that made every Indian weep more than ever managed by any family drama on TV or…
More security for VIPs in India
The BJP wants the security of its PM candidate Narendra Modi upgraded to possibly make him appear even more Prime Ministerial. I don’t wish to comment about the political aspects of such a demand. Also, there are genuine threats as proved by the bomb blasts at the recent Patna rally addressed by Modi. Instead, I…
Records of sorts in India
Records are meant to be broken. In India, if you ask me, world records are most frequently broken by stock markets — the fastest rise, fall in 24-hours, change in a week, month, etc etc. Indian stock exchanges should be in the Guinness book for the instances that current highs or lows are scaled for…
Bye Bye Sachin Tendulkar
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…
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….
Siddharth Srivastava 