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 Here’s why this law should be repealed (10 marks): 1.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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It is a dumb idea for Walmart to walk into India in the current environment. For one, Uma Bharti has promised to burn the first Walmart down. She’ll do it. She’s got the time. She doesn’t have a real job. If a leader of the center of right, “for trade” party is happy to...
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A charity for insanely rich people has been set up to help out Vijay Mallya now that Kingfisher Airlines is on the verge of failure. In many ways I don’t care one way or the other, but if my tax funds go into saving an airline, I really don’t see why it should be...
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The price of one litre of petrol in Bangalore is now Rs 76.30. Almost every dweeb in a political party, including some in the ruling coalition, sees it as a fine opportunity to weaken the dweebs running this country. People in Bangalore and those on faraway planet twitter are upset as well. Bangalore is...
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The death toll in this year’s terrorist attack in Delhi could climb to 20. The attack this year was hosted by the Delhi High Court.
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Inspired by Yashwant Sinha’s offer to resign a former unnamed bank manager who wished to remain anonymous drafted a “non-members bill” in parliament. Alleged NDA convenor Sharad Yadav’s threat to activists to not mock politicians was the final trigger. Yadav somehow implied that politicians hadn’t been relentlessly trying to discredit Team Anna for the...
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After bizarrely blaming the United States for supporting Anna Hazare’s communist-leaning agitation, the Congress may now being seeing another hand in the Anna Hazare protest for Jan Lokpal. Sources suggest that after an extensive intelligence gathering operation senior leaders in the Congress are almost certain of an Indian hand in the Jan Lokpal Movement....
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