Vijay Narayanan on November 29th, 2008

A must watch movie. Highly commendable. It is unfortunate that many people who have watched this movie consider it an imperfect remake of Cheran’s epic Thavamaai Thavamirundhu. In my opinion, that is the sort of preconception, borne of an urge to describe new things in the light of those familiar to us that can – and [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 28th, 2008

Terror attacks bring with them the incurable romantics who eulogize the living while mourning the dead. Perhaps with a view to instil confidence and hope, they overdo their part. Journalistic license, if you may. As in the case of Suketu Mehta in today’s Op-Ed page in the New York Times: In other cities, if there’s [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 27th, 2008

The most predictable of all the reactions to the standoff in Mumbai, now into its third, and seemingly final day now is the “Let’s go get those responsible for this” refrain. This is an approach that has neither worked in the past nor has a chance of working in the future. Counter-terrorism studies in the [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 25th, 2008

Cheap might mean inexpensive. It also means mean. I’m convinced it also means Airtel. Here is an ad that appeared in my Gmail Inbox a while ago. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) The ad is (presumably) run by Airtel, but the anchor text reads “Reliance User Call India”. Isn’t it outrageous to advertise one’s [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 25th, 2008

You remember Sagarika Ghose, don’t you? That newscaster who thinks of herself as an authority, especially on matters on which she has no competence whatsoever. She got her comeuppance from Ram Jethmalani this past week. Ms. Ghose, in attempting to push Mr. Jethmalani into a corner for his decision to defend Manu Sharma in the [...]

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