What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me? Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of […]
Since I found sleep hard to come by, I got off the bed and picked up an old issue of New Yorker (January 20, 2014). While leafing through the magazine, I hit upon an article on pediatric palliative care that had eluded my eyes during the first reading last month. Lives Less Ordinary by Harvard […]
I am being attacked because I’m doing things that are dangerous to the system….I’m a serious politician. I’m not somebody ….I’m somebody who’s here….I’m going to fight a battle. I’m going to fight a deep battle…. Don’t forget that. – Indian clown prince Rahul Gandhi in first extended TV interview Like millions of Indians (and […]
Love Fest – Retail Killer (left) with Wholesale Butcher (right) Say what you will but pigs will love only other pigs. This morning BJP leader Narendra Modi couldn’t contain his excitement at meeting Bollywood star Salman Khan. Modi tweeted pictures of him with Salman and boasted about having lunch with the actor. And Sallu Bhai […]
Whew, what a journey. From a lowly bus conductor in the Bangalore Transport Service to Superstar of Tamil cinema for over two decades! And now acknowledged as a “Blockbuster” Indian living legend. No miracle this, even if Rajinikanth insists it is (see below video)! Just dogged perseverance and enormous will power! Thalaivar, Vazhga (Oh leader, […]
If SI has said it once, SI has said it a million times. Mera Bharat Mahan a.k.a. India has no hope. So what if a few people can spell PHP, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript and SAP. But the Indian DNA is rotten to the core. Salman Khan – Devil in Human Form (Image courtesy – Microsoft […]