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Vijay Narayanan on January 20th, 2009

… is now the President of the United States of America. A bumper-sticker I saw on the road this morning summed it up succinctly: “2008: End of an Error.“

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Vijay Narayanan on December 19th, 2008

First a video clip from Times Now. You know what irks me? It is not that she (whose only real calling card is that she is somewhat remotely related to Aishwarya Rai) is dating him or anything. But that this report calls her a “popular South Indian actress“. Reminds me of Koundamani yet again: “மூணு [...]

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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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Vijay Narayanan on November 19th, 2008

Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ilaiyaraja’s second son, is (probably) the heir to Raja’s throne. Along with A.R. Rahman and Harris Jayaraj, he is one of the top three contemporary music directors in Tamil. His partnerships with the current crop of movie directors – Selvaraghavan (they have fallen out now), Vishnuvardhan, Venkat Prabhu, Ameer and Simbhu – [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 12th, 2008

News from Chennai is that L.K. Advani, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, met with Rajnikanth at his Poes Garden house yesterday. And speculation is rife that this might signal Rajnikanth’s arasiyal pravesam. My opinion is that Rajni should keep out of politics, even campaigning. And that too, not for the BJP, which has proved during the [...]

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