Hitler had infamously said, “Guns before butter”. His war machine took priority over the common man’s needs. This brazenness is echoed in the phrase “Runs before water”! This is what the IPL czars seem to be saying in their unquenched thirst for more moolah. The Supreme Court, and earlier the Bombay High Court, have taken…

Good Friday is when Christians throughout the world commemorate the agonizing and tortuous death of the Lord Jesus Christ; followed by his Resurrection on the third day, commonly known as Easter. It is not uncommon for those unfamiliar with these events to call up their Christian friends and excitedly wish them a Happy Good Friday!…

When I get home at night after a hard day’s work I like to relax after dinner and watch a bit of TV. I prefer to watch Comedy Central that gives some comic relief, because what we see on news channels and TV debates are in no way relaxing.  Night after night we are served…

There are claims and counter allegations that our Union Minister for Human Resource Development (an euphemism for Education) has been to, or enrolled, at three different colleges. What is not clear is whether or not the lady, whose earlier claim to fame was that of a heroine in a TV soap opera, is actually a…

Never mind Gulliver and the Lilliputians, or David slaying Goliath. There is now a reversal of roles, with a giant Goliath trying to destroy a defenseless David. The dramatis personae are the present political dispensation on the one hand, and its attempt to belittle or sideline Gandhiji, the original one, the Mahatma, on the other.…