If any of you have followed the ghastly expose by the Cnn-IBN team on the beggar-mafia-doctor link am sure you are equally apppalled.
Just how low is mankind in a mood to stoop, is what boggles ones sanity! This is not just a pathetic mirroring of the depravity of a ‘noble’ profession, to me, more poignantly is the glaring truth of poverty, its compellings and abject (more…)
Whats going on? Lets hazard a guess..game of chess, or worse still, a power play Bollywood style, villain vs common man? I always suspected our politicians to have serious misgivings of their heroism, not to forget their penchant for desi flicks.
But this was, lets face it, a good twist to an otherwise, drab, monotonous, predictable (more…)
For some of us in Mumbai..the holocaust hasn’t ended. I mean.. being unable to reach your very own blog is nothing short of catastrophic..a soul check..essential and recommended.The point is that some isp operator in Mumbai has for reasons, presently unknown, decided to give his operations a bad name..Or how else does one explain that we (more…)
If the steady reports depicting bigamy, adultery , are anything to go by then it does seem as if marriage has lost its sheen. More than marriage , loyalty, committment and polygamy seem like ‘yawn’ inducing terms. Slowly but steadily, inching forward, is the concept of an ‘open marriage’ whatever that means. (more…)
There has been a hue and cry and rightly so across the board, against the unfair, arbitrary blocking of blogspot and other sites, by those to who the voice of the common man seems a threat. (more…)
Once the dust settles and emotions are contained within manageable parameters, the burning desire to get at the bottom of the conundrum surfaces..the need to unravel the mystery.. To have faces, names, groups, strategies, plans exposed. (more…)
Delighted to be linked by Femmes Fatales of Blogcritics
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/15/150653.php
‘In my opinion’..Probably the three words not often quoted but most often insinuated..The world as a whole , blogosphere included, seems hinged on ‘opinions’. We opine therefore we blog.. fair enough.
Thereafter,how one wishes to categorise ‘opinion’ is essentially unimportant. Consider the (more…)
The plaintiffness of Tagore, almost a century old, has not lost its meaning. Have we gained nothing or is there nothing to gain?
from Gitanjali (more…)
This is a copy paste of a news item in Mumbai Mirror, on its web page but has no perma link.
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“Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Mushir Siddiqui (37), arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad in January this year, had given his interrogators specific details of LeT’s plans to cause (more…)
This post was written in real time.. as events happened..and news of tragedy filtered in from 6.20 p.m. Began writing immediately ..first at Indian pad to share the horrific occurence and rape of Mumbai at the hands of terrorists once again. It angers, saddens, immobilises you from even thinking straight. Sensing the gruesomeness even vicariously tingles ones spine and sends shivers down, imagining the plight of the hapless victims. (more…)
India is the twelfth wealthiest country in the world!!!!!
Unbelievable..yet it professes to be true. Question that seems uppermost however is WHERE does it show, account for and mirror?
According to a recent survey India still has the world’s LARGEST number of poor people in (more…)
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”
Sometimes a staid, boring, oft repeated phrase catches your eye as if for the first time. You sense the subtleties and suddenly its as if a ‘eureka’ kind of glee takes over. It happened today when randomly the term ’spread cheer’ appeared, out of nowhere as it (more…)
Mumbai.. Day 4th July 2006..Time 11.00 a.m..interior.. bedroom..sound of rain and winds lashing against window panes..background skies.. dark and menacing.
Kitaro playing..aroma of parathas waft in from the kitchen along with an agitated babble of arguments between the son and the maid on choice of spices, proportion of cheese, and addition of butter on insistence of son while maid confused at whether it was a preparation of parathas or pasta that was being discussed! (more…)
My favourite weather.. Monsoons..Numerous episodes of bunkings in school and college years, followed by romantic excapades with fiancee, now husband, drenched to the core moonlit walks on worli seaface, braving the stormy, icy winds, hunt for a chai wallah at unearthly hours, or just simply sitting in the balcony, reading a book,as if enveloped in the embrace of overcast sky, music of rain drumming on the ledge… One can go on and on,savouring the lingering taste of memories where the rain as if an integral part of the (more…)
Trial by media was a bad enough phenomenon. Now it is the National Students Union of India which has anointed itself the custodian of peoples rights and a body to rectify wrongs..A situation not easily digestible.
Prof. Vilas Athawale of the reputed Wilson College had to face the wrath of students, have his face blackened, a ‘garland’ of chappals around his neck, and then paraded thus to the (more…)
