Archive for November, 2009

Tigers

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Sunday morning, walking from Bangalore’s Garuda Mall to LifeStyle Mall, we pass by The Bangalore Football stadium. A game going on inside, tickets priced at Rs.20, no takers for it. I am tempted to think — In this nation of cricket worshippers, for all we know they could make the entry here free and yet [...]

A year after

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

One year since the November 26 2008 carnage that happened in Mumbai and we have already found more important things to talk about.
We have, for example, witnessed a “furore in the House” (as promised) when one MLA chose to take his oath in another language but Marathi. We witnessed how a few elected to the [...]

Not like you and me

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Times of India’s website, timesofindia.com carries a report on how the late Andhra CM, YSR Reddy met a sudden death on his Bell chopper. The report also carries a picture of the body of the CM, that was found by the search party after more than 24 hours of the chopper’s disappearance.
The picture is probably [...]