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January 2012

January 22, 2012

Mayawati Govt. spent Rs 4900 crores, but has no records!

Mayawati's Government is in serious trouble over a rural health program, where Rs 4900 crores...

January 22, 2012

Mahatama Gandhi Jiving on the Dance Floor with a Foreigner

We don't know whether this is a real picture of India's Father of Nation, Mahatama...

January 21, 2012

Cowardly Maoist Leader, Nayeemuddin, likes having Female Bodyguards

Maoist Leader in India, Mohammed Nayeemuddin, has a personal role model - slain Libyan dictator,...

January 20, 2012

Indian Tourists contributed $2.86 billion to the US Economy!

January 20, 2012

Hollywood going after copyright violations: SOPA on the sly?

New large scale actions have been started.

January 16, 2012

India suffers complete cricket humiliation

Surely, this must be one heck of a humiliation for the Indian team, as they...

March 2011

March 09, 2011

NPR CEO resignation: A look at lack of Journalistic Ethics Around the World

It is hard to believe that in the world of biased and partisan journalism, there...

August 2010

August 27, 2010

Intelligent Search from Yahoo’s experiment could predict future events

Semantic and contextualized search is an important area which will impact our ability to quickly...

July 2010

July 21, 2010

The News Just Got Spicier

In an amusing take on the Indian dream, a 60 year old school dropout from...

April 2010

April 30, 2010

Femmes Will Be Fatal

Female libido just got a pop-a-pill solution. Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that saved mankind (well...

April 22, 2010

IPL (Indian Political Labyrinth)

A friend’s tweet “Thoo Thoo Tharoor” got me thinking. A weeklong of this blockbuster of...

April 14, 2010

NPR and News: Quality and Innovation at the forefront

My friend, Prem, who writes on Drishtikone - would often reprimand me about the quality...

April 13, 2010

Eric Schmidt on News and Blogging

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s made a speech two days ba

March 2010

March 28, 2010

March-ing Ahead

The month started amidst much brouhaha. The nation expressed outrage at Hussain’s Qatarization. Why target...

June 2009

June 21, 2009

Why Economist succeeds and Newsweek/Time may close down

There is an interesting article on "The Atlantic" site, that the news-weeklies like Newsweek and...

May 2009

May 29, 2009

Chitra Singh's daughter commits Suicide

A very sad news - just announced on the local radio here in context of...

March 2009

March 07, 2009

Today's Business Brew from Indian Papers

Here is today's top and interesting Economic news headlines from the various papers in India...

December 2008

December 02, 2008

Why do our TV channels interview ex ISI chiefs???

I switched on the TV to a English news channel- Times now, in my opinion...

October 2008

October 24, 2008

Indian News – then and now

When you see the news on Indian media (TV) today, it seems so rank bad....

October 17, 2008

How Indian media is sold to outside influences!

I have a FIRM belief that the national media in India does not have the...

July 2008

July 29, 2008

"War is the natural condition of man": Robert Fisk

I remember having seen the book by Robert Fisk "The Great War for Civilization" at...

July 16, 2008

AP photographers with suspicious credentials in insurgent areas

Journalistic ethics are always in question when one is dealing with times of human tragedy....

June 2008

June 10, 2008

Akihabara Massacre

The busy and changing world of more and more technology and less people interaction is...

May 2008

May 15, 2008

Tragedies around the world and Man's Greed

Last week has been a terrible one for the world. Several large - man made...

February 2008

February 08, 2008

Iraqi Mother and her son

There are many heart breaking pictures I have seen, but this is surely one of...

January 2008

January 17, 2008

Self Destructing Plant, Science is Art and the Invisibilizing Cloak

Sharing some interesting news... have fun A giant palm tree - which can be seen...

December 2007

December 27, 2007

Breaking News: Benazir Bhutto is Dead!

Benazir Bhutto today died in a suicide attack in Pakistan. An era has ended. Former...

December 20, 2007

October 2007

October 27, 2007

Taj and the Goddess

Devotees burst crackers during immersion of Durga's idol on the banks of Yamuna near Taj...

October 23, 2007

Animals and Humans to each others' help!

A southern Illinois firefighter, Dave Chambers, yesterday went above and beyond his call of duty...