Blogs, Opinion, Opinions

Five Years Through A Blogger’s Looking Glass

Editors of newspapers and magazines today are more like censors, toeing the political line of their proprietors, dishing out packaged meals – the customer has no real choice. Television anchors are cacophonous megaphones of the powers that be, but do not see.

This is where the blogger comes in – not subject to any editorial restraint, or the tyranny of TRPs or readership numbers or commercial imperatives, he can record things as he sees them and speak from the heart. He may be right or wrong, but the reader at least gets a frank opinion, and can make up his own mind, not have it made up for him by a slanted news item or a mercenary advertorial,

Blogs, Opinion

Dhan Ki Baat

I should have listened to Mintu, ten years my senior, way back in 1973. If I had, I wouldn’t be living in a village…

Opinion, Opinions, Politics

BJPs Final Pincer Strategy

General V.K. Singh has certainly had the last laugh on this one. Remember how we all bristled when he called journalists “presstitutes”? Turns out he was dead right, as the latest multiple stings by Cobrapost reveals.

Blogs, Opinion, Opinions, Shimla

Shimla – Fading Beauty, Abiding Charms

Shimla’s charms have not lapsed with the passage of time and still have the power to take us back to an age when life moved at the pace of the hand rickshaw, and the quality of life was measured in simple pleasures, not the mixed blessings of the Internet Of Things.