The glaring distinction between the two men who have hogged headlines recently is as dazzling the sunshine outside of my window. As things stand today, getting murkier by the moment, it is obvious that while former MOS for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was perhaps a “ misfit” , IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi for sure is… [Read more…]
April 18, 2010
Congressman Shashi Tharoor will perhaps hereafter never give his kindly “ blessings” in a hurry, judging from the massive flak he has drawn for his advisory role in the IPL Kochi franchise. As a smart politician Tharoor obviously saw the IPL franchise as an opportunity to create a sustained annual model to remind the frequently… [Read more…]
April 16, 2010
On April 6, 1998, Sonia Gandhi was unanimously elected the Congress president. The intervening 12 years have seen huge changes. In Gandhi herself and in the way we see her. Soon after taking over the Congress presidency, Gandhi visited, Mumbai. Murli Deora, then the head of the state Congress, hosted a lunch to introduce her… [Read more…]
April 16, 2010
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s re-appointment as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC) is a clear signal from the party of its overall assertion over the government. It is also, in a way, an admission by the party that the government needed better direction to implement the party agenda that was in tune with… [Read more…]
February 12, 2010
1) Why did not Union Minister Sharad Pawar use his celebrated “ personal rapport and good relations” to ask Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray to stop his party’s senseless agitation and mindless violence against Shah Rukh Khan’s film My Name is Khan when he met him to seek his “blessings” for his IPL tournament and… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
The last week has been a never-ending barrage of controversial news; Telangana, David Headley, Copenhagen and climate change , liberally interspersed with the sexual marathons of Tiger Woods’s putts , butts and long drives, and of course, cricket. With news coverage becoming increasingly commodity-like amidst this constant jamboree , certain features stood out. I thought… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Has it ever struck you, common man, that we in India have stopped questioning some very basic issues which should occur to us with logical and biological precision on auto mode? Let me explain: 1) We all know that the Liberhan Report on Ayodhya demolition was leaked to the Indian Express and NDTV who naturally… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
I asked a few people in a small group who Ajmal Amir Kasab was. They looked at me in wonderment and surprise, even perceivable amusement as if saying—– “Are you a crazy lunatic guy, or what ?” I prodded them ,deliberately provocative, feigning the status of an ignoramus. Sighing with egregious exasperation, one of them… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
(Republished. Originally in Indian Express) I met Raj Thackeray in his formidable fortress in Shivaji Park, Dadar a couple of years ago, accompanied by two Bollywood celebrities from the land of Pataliputra , Prakash Jha and Shekhar Suman, just when the initial hullabaloo over Railway recruitments had suddenly surfaced. There were several protestations, vitriolic statements… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
-By Sanjay Jha The brutally slaughtered Professor Harbhajan Singh Sabharwal never gave me classroom lectures. Neither did he solicitously provide me career advice. In fact, outside the academic fraternity of Ujjain, he was perhaps just a simple middle – class family man , low profile and living a modest existence of a professor a few… [Read more…]
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