India’s defense forces have decided to rescue French merchants of death, Dassault, and promise them $10 billion and a few millions in change over the next few years for 18 planes and 110 assembly kits. So, why as a loyal Indian citizen, am I not rejoicing that we are finally modernizing our air force?...
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In the runup to the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has promised to give free cows to the poor if the party is voted to power. BJP’s promise of free cows is combined with the offer of free laptops and the party hopes this will boost the agro-information-technology-dairy industry that it hopes...
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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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