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Once upon a time in Ramakrishna Vidyashala
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Like everybody’s life, mine too had its eventful days when I was a school boy. In the Ramakrishna Vidyashala in Mysore. A school with the reputation of …
Are cell phone users the most obnoxious humans?
As someone who doesn’t use a cell phone because there is nothing so urgent in life that it cannot wait a few minutes, this video of “Bus Uncle”, a Hong …
What our ministers should learn from Tony Blair
Given how lifeless our well-decorated newspapers are becoming, the only place to get some juice is in the LTTE (letters to the editor) columns. Sample this letter in today's Telegraph, Calcutta: *** Sir—The British …
Do Sachin, Shah Rukh, Ash have a conscience?
Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss's relentless attempts to correct the ills of Indian society continue. Yesterday, the man who wants a "Statutory Warning" on the screen each time Rajnikanth takes a puff, …
‘Congress treated (and treats) India like its jagir’
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: In Camera Chronicles, India's first female news photographer Homai Vyarawalla lays the blame for the country's Partition and its continuing troubles and travails squarely at the door of …