With Salman Rushdie’s good luck and fame in my mind, if I ever write another book, I would pray that it be banned by the government. I will then have a best seller in my hands.. I suggest that Ms Udwin sells copyrights to as many foreign channels and studios as she can before a higher court in India lifts the ban.
Category: PEOPLE
HOW AND WHY GREENPEACE SKYPED OVER A GOVERNMENT TRAP
This time around, Priya Pillai of Greenpeace India thwarted a government attempt to block her freedom of speech and to stop her from travelling abroad with a valid passport and visa - she used the Skype to express her views to a panel of MPs in England.
VR KRISHNA IYER: SEE YOU LATER, YOUR HONOUR
Justice VR Krishna Iyer hit a century and retired on December 4th of this dying year– nineteen days after the city of Kochi in Kerala celebrated the landmark. The other landmark he left behind was of seven hundred memorable Supreme Court judgments – a century for each year of his tenure. As a young lawyer … Continue reading VR KRISHNA IYER: SEE YOU LATER, YOUR HONOUR
HOW THEY FED YOUNG RAJAN TO PIGS IN ‘EMERGENCY’
This is the photo is of Rajan, son of Professor Eachara Varrier (also spelt Warrier), a final year student of Regional Engineering College, Kozhikode in 1976. People in Kerala mention him simply as Rajan, the boy who was “rolled” by Kerala Police until his testes burst. There were no eye witnesses apart from policemen to … Continue reading HOW THEY FED YOUNG RAJAN TO PIGS IN ‘EMERGENCY’
NO BHARAT RATNA FOR KALYANASUNDARAM
WITH DUE RESPECT TO THIS GREAT SON OF INDIA, This Site is under further Research Please bear with us, The life story of Palam Kalyanasundaram is an incredible saga. Not to worry; it's the credible-sounding ones from VIPs and celebrities that turn out to be lies. Kalyanasundaram started paying the school fees of a few children … Continue reading NO BHARAT RATNA FOR KALYANASUNDARAM
IF A JUDGE BE A DICTATOR….ISN’T THAT OMINOUS?
. A few years years ago, Hegde-Kageri, a BJP Minister of education in Karnataka State, justifying his intention to introduce Bhagavad Gita as a school curriculum announced: “This Country believes in the Gita. Those who oppose it and believe in philosophies that are not of this country can go there and propagate them”. Immediately thereafter, … Continue reading IF A JUDGE BE A DICTATOR….ISN’T THAT OMINOUS?
KONNAYIL GEEVERGHESE MATHAI
Who would remember Corporal Konnayil Geeverghese Mathai today? He could not have been married by 1965; so no wife, children or grand children to remember the name. Perhaps there is a black-and-white photo hanging on a wall in some Catholic house in Pala or Kottayam in Kerala. If you ask the children in the house … Continue reading KONNAYIL GEEVERGHESE MATHAI
MY TRYST WITH LGBT AND HOLY SHITS
I knew two friends who were somewhat different in their physical and mental makeup than what I thought to be masculine. The first guy was a school mate, a neighbour, and the brother of my classmate. I will call him Soman. As we grew up, Soman became somewhat emotionally – certainly not physically - dependent … Continue reading MY TRYST WITH LGBT AND HOLY SHITS
THROWING LIGHT ON GUJARAT MODEL
More figures to go with my blog on Narendra Modi and (God forbid,) the Indian Spring.
Narendra Modi and the Indian Spring
12 years after he caused the greatest communal divide, Narendra Modi blogs of the pain he went through. What is coming next - another divide or an Indian Spring?