Prologue The other day I witnessed a brawl on a bus where a person took objection to another using what is (wrongly) called “unparliamentary language” when speaking on the phone. The outraging guy told the other that it was not his culture to shout incestuous words to a busload full of passengers at the top…
There is a widely quoted and talked about elusive race of people in India, who everyone seems to love, care for and are always anxious about, but no one really knows who they are. Everyone wants to be a part of them, but not openly and all the time, but only when it suits them,…
This is a real incident that happened a couple of days back. It was a lazy afternoon and I was on a 500C (ITPL – Banashankari) Bangalore BMTC Volvo bus, traveling from Whitefield to Marathahalli. That was when this dude, around 25-ish years of age, adorned with a Software company ID card all all got…
Outrage everywhere as Sachin Tendulkar, India’s Cricketing God, decides to accept an invitation from the Congress Party to join the Rajya Sabha as a nominated member! We all know that outrage is our national past time, and we spend considerable time outraging on anything and everything usually stupid things but never on those things which…
I knew something like this was afoot from the very beginning. The entire media and the elite glam-sham people were up in arms revolting against Norway and their “high-handed” and inhuman ways of treating Indian kids for quite some time with some even screaming racism and xenophobia. Yes, laws are strictly enforced in European countries…
Make no mistake, the aspirations of ours to become a Superpower or even a developed nation by 2020 is quite a lofty one, considering the present scenario of us as a people, more than that of as a nation. That is because there are many things that constitute a how a developed nation should be,…
(This was written for 11.11.11, but is applicable for any date, like all the 12.12.12 hype people are stupidly frothing at the mouth about right now) Human stupidity knows no bounds. An example of this is staring us in the face today where we have another fancy-number date on the calendar. And as it always…
(NOTE: 1. Read the entire thing before outraging and shouting abuses. 2. This is not an outright pro/anti post, just trying to drill down the facts of what is going on. 3. I am not a supporter of any party and no one asked me to write this.) All over India, people are outraging against…
Yesterday, India’s uncrowned king of bubblegum literature, Chetan Bhagat, decided to celebrate Father’s Day by recycling an old locker room joke about child custody and a Coke vending machine. Minutes after the tweet was published, all hell broke loose and a shitstorm of outrage ensued on Twitter with all kinds of people, trolls, bots and…
There seems to be a serious misunderstanding on what “corruption” means in India. It seems that we think only politicians and bureaucrats are and can be corrupt, and corruption as such starts and ends with bribes, misuse of power and ‘looting’ large sums of public money. Look at these: Corruption as defined by Google and…
The days were harsh, hot and dusty and the nights cold and windy. The vast swathes of Middle Earth, the land of the race of Desis, men of honor, valor and culture were overrun by vast white armies of the Goras, creatures of great cunning and greed. The Desis were forced to subjugate their honor and immense wealth to…
Libya has been witnessing the most violent among the protests that have been rocking the Middle East. After 40 years under the rule of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, Libyans rose in protest against his autocratic regime demanding his ouster. However, what separates Libya from Egypt is that Gaddafi is no Mubarak and refuses to quit. There are reports of violence…