Archive for May, 2009

Post Poll Thoughts

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Chandan Mitra, editor of The Pioneer, member of the Rajya Sabha and a BJP supporter, in an interview to rediff.com here, says, among many other things, “We failed to really reach out to the blogging community and the social networking groups”.
Of course, there is nothing to suggest that BJP thinks that this is THE [...]

Not the same anymore

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

In the overall constructive years of my adolescence, my cricketing conscience was taking shape. So in 1996, when Michael Atherton played the shot and at ESPN they said that it’s the best cover drive you can ever get to see, true to copy book style, I took it to heart.
It was also the year [...]

Coming back…

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Coming back from an unintended hibernation, I am surprised how non-reactive I have been to issues like (among other things) recession, Varun Gandhi (well not really), 80 year old chaps contesting elections, the heat waves across the country, the annual cricket tournament which lets you turn on the tv and put it on mute [...]