Super Cop Kiran Bedi Superseded

Speaking to a news channel Kiran Bedi expressed jocularly that she was not caught totally off guard by the decision. In fact she would have been surprised had she been appointed. Not the first instance when her sincere, honest, unbiased, fair, approach to her work has led her...

Life In A Metro - A Review

"when one sets out to view a film the title of which screams out ‘Life.. In A Metro’ one has sub consciously resigned oneself to expecting an exaggerated, superfluous. hyperbolic, frenzied account of the above mentioned characteristics. You are as excited as a terrapin on...

Comrade-In-Alms : Beggars in Mumbai Own Duplexes

"Beggars owning duplexes in Mumbai was so far just an inane piece of gossip floating around .To have read details, solidified the rumors..once and for all"

'Water' In "Rang De Basanti' Out Of Oscar Race

Deepa Mehtas sure having the last laugh. She was hounded out of the country, not allowed to shoot, harangued by poilitical parties expresssing disgruntlement over her choice of subject. Imagine being ready with camera and crew, your heroine in complete preparedness for the...

A 17Year Old Indian Girl Chosen As UNICEF Mascot

A girl child can achieve the impossible in India, despite any form of support, encouragement, impetus, financially or otherwise, merely by sheer dint of intention and confidence in her abilities. Its time we pick up from where we left off in thinking that History can be...

A Rapist Who Posed as a Swami

Swami Balnath had molested orphaned underage girls in his ashram for years..One shudders to think what this generation of little girls, present in the ashram, brutalised at will, muted and animalised, will grow up to be.. what do they look forward to and what have they been...

At Last Divine Justice-Priyadarshini Mattoo

In Praise Of A Citizen-Bina Ramani

She was brought to Mumbai as if she was a hardened criminal..victimised, targetted and punished for being the sole eye witness willing to indict the culprit. Bina fainted in the court while the proceedings were on. Her husband waited alone outside, a lone figure, grey...

Bravo-Carry On Munnabhai..Review

One cannot dismiss the trepidation, the makers might have been subjected to while conceiving the plot and capers, firstly to match up with the previous success. Secondly to provide a prgression in thought and narrative, simultaneously balancing the light hearted tone which...

Alvida Marriage-Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (Review)

Karan Johar has indicted the treatise of marriage as a committment. What comes through pre-dominantly is the notion of a nebulous institution open to a re-definition, where accepted norms have been questioned, vows overlooked, sanctity ignored. All this with a plaintiff...

Pesti Cola-Pesticides In Colas

" Swami Ramdev, the yoga exponent, making waves for a while now,, had described colas as ‘toilet cleaners’ in one of his public speeches. One expected a fallout that would implicate him sooner or later. After all, this was a direct accusation against major players, with...

Blogging In India-Censored!

" One wishes that this kind of alacrity and adeptness had been displayed in arresting terrorism and their nefarious activities, this past decade or more. Thousands upon thousands of innocent lives would have been saved. The humiliating juncture of having to curb/stifle the...

Is India Safe.. Now what

" While we can show our tongue out to the terrorists and continue to pretend as if nothing has happened, let this not be the message that the Administration receives. Our confidence is flagging, fear is gaining foothold and hopelessness is slowly setting in. From the looks of...