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Dynasty by other means: Will Chidambaram be Rahul’s ‘nightwatchman’?
Manmohan Singh has earned himself many an unflattering epithet over the years, and this weekend Narendra Modi awarded him a new one: "nightwatchman." "Then when the time came to form government, they chose a PM who can do what the family wants, so another nightwatchman," declaimed Modi at #OnOurMind #P. Chidambaram #Rahul Gandhi
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Budget 2013: How much more can you soak the salaried schmuck?
In the midst of our Finance Minister's "business as usual" budget speech, Shri Chidambaram acknowledged the elephant in the room: "In 2011-12, the tax GDP ratio was 5.5 percent for direct taxes and 4.4 percent for indirect taxes. These ratios are one of the lowest for any large developing country #Budget 2013 Highlights #Budget2013 #Income tax #P. Chidambaram #Super rich
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Yahoo! telecommuting ban is retrograde, anti-family and self-defeating
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's ban on telecommuting comes at a time when technology has made our lives easier and made double income families a reality. The move is not just ant-family but also self-defeating taking the tech company a step backward in the modern
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Yahoo! ban on telecommuting: Retrograde, anti-family, and self-defeating
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has taken the great leap backwards. She has banned telecommuting for all her employees, and in a manner that can, at best, be described as patronising. "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with #Marissa Mayer #ThatsJustWrong #Working from home #Yahoo! #Yahoo! Communications Europe Ltd.
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Attention, Indian women rising: Self defence can land you in jail
Two men drove up in a government jeep and began to harass a group of young women standing outside a fast-food restaurant. The crowd looked silently on as one of the women, Amrita Mohan, got into an altercation with the men. They drove away and came back with reinforcements, ready #Amrita #Kerala #One billion rising #Sexual violence #ThatsJustWrong
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Hilary Mantel vs Kate ‘controversy’: No reading required
The maelstrom of outrage sparked by Hilary Mantel's remarks on Britain's most beloved royal is undoubtedly misplaced and gratuitous. I won't bother analysing Mantel's intentions or her observations about the Duchess of Cambridge. Others have done it better, including author Beatrix Campbell who summed up the defence in her #Catherine Duchess of Cambridge #CultureDecoder #Hilary Mantel #Kate Middleton
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Reader’s Digest and me: Family ties that bind
One of my earliest revelatory moments as a newly arrived college kid in the United States involved John Denver. "I like John Denver," I said cheerfully, only to be met with horrified amusement. No one at USIS or the International Student's Office had sent me the memo on Denver's current status #Reader's Digest #ThisIndianLife
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Stop the presses: NYT claims Indians kiss!
OMG, Indians kiss! This groundbreaking revelation was unearthed by the New York Times just in time for Valentine's Day. We used to know how to snog, buss, osculate, suck face etc but lost that precious knowledge in the mists of time. The last documented instance being the 3000-year old Mahabharata. Or
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Secular vs communal: The blinkered discourse
Our political discourse is blinkered by a false partisan debate based on wild generalisations and name-calling. An op-ed debate points to a very real consensus that could emerge if our most heated arguments were over ideas and not Modi v Rahul. Read full story
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The fake debate: Communal Modi fanboys vs Sickular Commies
Political debate in India is passionate, vociferous, and high-decibel. Ideas often get lost in the thickets of rhetoric and name-calling. Wild generalisations are par for course, especially when caricaturing the positions of your opponents. The result is toxic partisan fist-fight, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Within this context, the #Narendra Modi #Rahul Gandhi #WideAngle