News 24×7

News has always been a passion, but with the advent of 24×7 TV news coverage, it has created an appetite and fueled it continuously. But more importantly it has also opened up a whole new perspective – watching the media. For me it started a while back, watching the news media driving themselves into a [...]

Steve Jobs

My first memories of Steve Jobs, started soon after my entry into the field of computers and information technology. Most of it was hearsay, information passed down by my peers and friends. Information was usually biased one way or the other, and probably even embellished one way or the other. Steve Jobs and his early [...]

MMS Speech

Below is the speech, our mumbling Prime Minister, MMS, made in the Parliament two days after India’s 65th Independence Day. I have officially named him as ‘mumbler on the roof’, as an ode to Nero. So while average Indias are boiling in anger, our mumbler on the roof, chooses to make mumbling speeches and statements. [...]

Anna, Hazaar!

I am sitting here in the US, far away from the action in India. But my heart is somewhere else. People are out in huge numbers in Delhi and all other major cities and towns in India. ‘I am Anna Hazare’, is not just an expression of words, but a mirror to the hopes and [...]

Revolution, Inquilab !

What does Greece, Egypt, and Syria have in common? What can one expect if the trend continues in India, US, Spain, China, etc? Inquilab or revolution. History repeats itself they say, and these are clear signs it will. Inquilab Zindabad! Revolution Forever !! I have been used to this term since i was a child. [...]

Scandalous Disgrace

Arunima Sinha, a sportswoman who plays football at the national level, would have lead a life in oblivion, but for the national media, that picked up her story and aired it. The treatment meted out to her clearly shows the disdain with which we treat our sports-persons. This recent episode is nothing new and forms [...]

Corrupt Governance

Growing up in India, one always was aware of the corrupt environment. It was difficult not to see or interface with it. India of the 80′s, was vastly different from the India today. Teaming population, that included a huge middle class that had little or no purchasing power. A structured economy, where most employed and [...]

Sordid News Media

When i wrote the previous post, i hadnt read or seen, one of the biggest reports in the news, about the media. In the previous post, i had only highlighted a visible malice,  related mainly to the culture of 24×7 TV news. While the observations were focused on news as it unfolds in India, it [...]

Sorry of a News Media

Given my travel schedule, its difficult to track news from the beginning to the end. I mean a particular story, from the first time it is splashed as a breaking story, as it unfolds, till it eventually results in some common good. Well, that was the news of the old. Or supposedly. We always tend [...]

What were we thinking?

The planners and masters that run the government were hard at work for the last many months, in try to get the Nuclear Liability Bill passed. But unfortunately they had a series of mishaps that resulted in a circus, exposing the real workings of a democracy. A government of some people, by some people, for [...]