The following is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory like God. Dr Mukesh Batra, head of the Batra Homeopathy establishment has been awarded one of India’s highest civilian honors. An award hitherto reserved for lesser actors who make good Lays advertisements has now gone to a man known for messing with allopathy and peddling what many...
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1984-riots accused Jagdish Tytler allegedly condemned American comedian Jay Leno’s unintentional and oblique reference to the Golden Temple while mocking Mitt Romney. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Tytler who was once accused of leading mobs to kill thousands of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 has said, “Jay’s not funny anymore. I don’t get the joke....
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While live cricket scores from the India V Australia match continue to show depressing results for the Indian team one corporate is refusing to give up on the boys in blue. “We don’t have other sports in India. It doesn’t matter so much to the average Aussie if they lose in cricket. They have...
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If there is a God he’s one cruel sadist. I have spent this week writing in defense of terribly written works of Salman Rushdie, cops in Bangalore (from lawyers in Bangalore, no less) and now I thought I’d have to write in defense of the one and only Barkha Dutt. The Game Indian Twitter...
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Satanic Verses is a bad book, it’s not worth this kind of time. It’s worse than even commercially successful Chetan Bhagat’s works. Yet, Salman Rushdie deserves our protection. And, yes, everyone involved in this story is a prize fool. A few weeks ago I wrote about a strange organization in the middle of an...
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Madhya Pradesh wants to put people in jail for 7 years for eating beef. Well, that’s a bit harsh even for a lipservice law aimed at hoodwinking a vote bank. Here’s why this law should be repealed (10 marks): 1. The law aims to please a religious minority: ‘Hindus who will be hoodwinked’. I...
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Clearly, BBMP’s sterilization drive went well. The cute proof is before you. They’ll grow up to bite some animal rights activist in the bum if there is any justice in the universe, instead of dragging some toddler for some twenty feet across the road to her death. If there is a God it will...
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The All India Muslim Tyohar Committee in Bhopal issued a `fatwa` against Veena Malik. This latest act is merely filling up the “free publicity to mediocre artists” annual quota provided by right wing organizations (across faiths) to ‘liberal’ arty types. M.F. Hussein would’ve been just another rich Indian in the gulf and Salman Rushdie...
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