Full Stop!

I am not outraged. I am not being cynical this time. In fact I am amazed. There are some people whom I have held in very high regard, whose discourse I have followed very closely. I have read every single piece they have written and published. One of them is Dr. Koenraad Elst.
He is a [...]

Steve Bucknor of Goa. Aka Shakuni Mama of Goa

If you think cricket is the only game where umpires go out of their way to make a team loose or win I think you haven’t read newspapers recently. Goa-ki Giri huee government firse gir gayi kyaa? Asked me a friend on Gtalk.
Apparently the government had fallen not for the first time but like [...]

Electorate, Modi and Media. The Good the Bad the Ugly.

I was waiting for a bus to college when my friends informed me that Gujarat is burning in Riots. Being a 12th std student no one liked me watching the television especially since I was not staying at my own house. Nor I had read papers for those few days. Not that I studied [...]

Did Papa murder Rizwanur Ahmed?

 
Dear Papa, hope you don’t misunderstand this, if and when you do read this.
I had always thought it was Papa’s ‘over-protectiveness’ that made him dislike the idea of me talking or befriending any boy. I say ‘boy’ because the first memories of Papa reacting adversely to any male company around me goes back 20 years…
I [...]