A recent video on YouTube showed Malayalam actress Kavya Madhavan being asked to leave the premises of a polling booth for trying to skip the queue. It was thanks to the bravado of one man that the rest of the voters could vote peacefully and in time. He protested and did not allow the star …
Is India free of bias yet? This is something that has always come across to me as foolish – the idea that the once-discriminated/tortured can be made to feel like equals only if they are slotted in the ‘quota category’. And I am talking about the reservation system in India for the backward classes. Income …
Here are a few budget reactions from the corporate world sent to me by the respective PR agencies. While some are lauding Pranab, others are not too happy with him. As a layman, I am only happy with Pranab for making it a rural-focussed budget. After all, a large part of India still resides in …
Agreed Anjelina Jolie is doing some really good work through her humanitarian efforts to alleviate the pains of refugees, but it’s early days yet for her to make a serious bid at politics. However, news is that she finds Hollywood boring and has now set her sights on the White House. Yup, she wants to …
SUSHMA SWARAJ, the 56-year-old charismatic Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader known for her gift of the gab, is the machine gun-mouth of the political outfit. She was earlier a lawyer in the Supreme Court and later went on to become the youngest cabinet minister of the country at the age of 25 years. When Swaraj …
At a time when the issue should be larger than the subject questioning it, TV9 does the most ignoble of things. By projecting reporters larger than life. Just the other day, I saw a live voice broadcast of a reporter, giving his take on the dismal state of Karnataka politics, as if he’s an expert …
