Monthly Archives: March 2009
Buns and Guns
There I am, sprightly, awake and jetlagged in a London hotel at 4 in the morning (thanks to a series of misadventures) so I do what everyone does in those circumstances. I turn on the tv. Time Life offered me a 12-CD collection called “Midnight Soul” with favourites like “Freak Me” for 50pounds. A channel [...]
Not cricket
Everyone was sure after the November attacks in Mumbai that there was a second set coming. In Mumbai, this meant there were police barricades set up all over the city which slowed down the already turgid traffic. The predictions for the next chosen site ranged from military bases in Gujarat to the Red Fort during [...]
Rhetorical questions
The elections are coming to India and the Times of India will keep us informed of what each party is doing, thinking, planning etc.. So the front page of the paper today has absolutely no news in it. Zero. All it has is something of an ad for the paper’s own Lead India campaign. The [...]
World Domination
