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Guru Greg Chappell has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.  Does he deserve a Second Innings as India’s cricket coach?  I care two hoots.  The Second Innings that caught my attention is from the super hit movie, “Lage Raho Munnabhai”.  The home for the aged, run by the naturally beautiful Vidya Balan,…

A vision is different from a dream. A dream is nebulous, based on subjective experience, and driven either by love or fear. A vision is more objective, rooted in reality; one foresees a situation, based on current trends, and aspires towards a specific goal. We in the ICPA must be visionaries not dreamers. To find…

Migrants in Mumbai are a cause of migraine for Raj Thackeray and his Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).  Raj Thackeray and company are in like manner giving a severe headache to the rest of the country.  His tirade and ensuing violence, against migrants to Mumbai has struck at the root of India’s sense of nationhood.  Is…

Later this month maverick minister Mamta plans to flag off the Mother Express from Kolkata. It will be coloured white and blue like Mother Teresa’s sari. This is Mamta’s birth centenary tribute to the true mother of mamta (compassion) on 26th August. Minister Mamta has decided on the colour of the train, but not on…

Do the names of Anjula, Bipasha and Mumtaz sound familiar?  All three were in the news recently.  Mumtaz Mahal was the wife of Emperor Shahjahan, who built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum, in her everlasting memory.  It is called an eternal love story, and some vague media company has now listed it among the…

Maverick Mamta will launch the Mother Express to commemorate the birth centenary of Mother Teresa on the coming 26th August.  She has decided that the train will have the blue and white colours of Mother Teresa’s sari.  What she has not decided is where the train will go! Sounds funny, but I am sad and…

“I believe in God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth”.  This is a traditional Christian Credo.  The Marxist differs, and says, “I believe in Man, the maker of heaven on earth”.  How does a Christian respond to the Marxist challenge?  My personal credo is a combination of both. I therefore profess “I believe in Man…

This title would have enkindled great hopes in the miserable lives of henpecked husbands, more so if their wives are pretty, and more accomplished than they themselves are!  Alas, this is not to be, for I am writing about the reported conversion of Julia Roberts, of “Pretty Woman” fame, to Hinduism.  Tough luck for all…

“Spare the rod and spoil the child” was the old dictum. Now that the print and electronic media have highlighted the suicide of Rouvanjit Rawla, allegedly after having been caned by Sumrinal Chakraborty, the Principal of La Martiniere, Kolkata, we have another trial by the media. It makes for good copy and TRPs. Shobhaa De,…

The pink sheet slipped through the letter hole in the front door; and the chowkidar coughed loud enough to draw our attention to it. It was a bitterly cold December night, and four of us kids were snuggled up near the fireplace in the drawing room, as Dad regaled us with shikar stories, and Mum…