As 2013 is finally over, it is time to review the best movies released this past year. As usual Politics and Sports dominated again. This year movies for the international audience were a bare minimum as the Indian audience concentrated…
WHY?
Random postings on the way I understand the world around me… Serious or Satire, words laid on the table as they are…. now shifting slowly to www.yethiinraj.blogspot.com
Fingertip Democracy – the lazy politician
Everyone says greatness can come from anywhere. But I am sure nobody imagined it coming from a cubicle in an IT company surrounded by 800 other such cubicles. That is my story of greatness, of almost greatness. Everyone likes to…
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Digital Democracy
More than half the population of India now own mobile phones. Barely half the population of India cast their vote. If half of all the mobile phone owners have never voted, you are staring at a huge potential customer base…
Broken Dreams with a Brilliant Tab!!
I looked forward to my first tab like I might look forward to my first wife. Now your mobile might be your girlfriend, you do not mind changing it, options available are numerous as long as all basic functionalities remain.…
Rahul Gandhi, waste or wasted….
Leaders might be born, might be made, might happen by accident or by necessity, but to expect leadership by sycophancy is stretching it. To shout from rooftops that somebody, who has neither the upbringing nor has shown the intellectual ability…
The West will wait….
An old post for my college blog. Still relevant. For all the hoopla around the entrance in FDI in retail and other sectors, we Indians have not fully comprehended the reasons the west is in such a hurry to set…
Why minorities should vote for the BJP
The Ishrat Jahan case may have judicial authenticity but no one can argue that the timing and the blatancy with which the government is pushing it is a purely political move. With elections around the corner, it it time for…
The Prime Minister needs a job…
Not many people at the non descript pub in central Delhi noticed the old sardar sitting in the corner and quietly sipping some Italian wine. But this correspondent with a keen eye for detail recognized him instantly and went up to him…
Gayle to retire from IPL, to enter Indian politics.
In an exclusive interview with me at the Kingfisher Club, Bangalore, Chris Gayle made the shocking announcement that he is going to retire from the RCB with immediate effect and join the Congress party. Mr Gayle was completely lucid and…
Modi Mantra
Indian politics, unlike in more mature western democracies has always been ideology driven, and to a certain extent personality driven. Rather than being issue based or development based, parties have stuck to creating and maintaining vote banks based on intangible…
WHY? 