Reflections
"No parenting skills" a lame excuse
I was absolutely disgusted reading the paper this morning to find that the Department of Children and Families had released the information...
Let the punishment fit the crime
Eleven-year-old Shanno of the Delhi Municipal Corporation primary school in Bawana couldn’t recite the English alphabet properly. As...
The lesser of two evils
There’s a game young teens in America play, where one person presents a scenario, suggests two unfavorable plans of action, and the...
The mynah incident
Two weeks ago, Chennai readers were shocked to see in the paper a doctored photo of two mynah birds appear on the second page of The Hindu....
Scribbled in the margin: “off the record” information
If there’s one thing journalists hate hearing from their sources it’s the dreaded “this is off the record,” as if...
Scribbled in the margin: "off the record" information
If there’s one thing journalists hate hearing from their sources it’s the dreaded “this is off the record,” as if...
A tribute to the homemakers
Members of the Alladi household met at the Ekamra Nivas dining room late Friday night to resume talks on the next day’s menu. Although...
Voting: all prices are fixed, final sale
A few posts back I wrote that the complacency of voters who don’t care enough to vote are one cause of corruption in the country that...
At The Hindu: Anything but dull…..
CHENNAI: Thirty-six small pairs of eyes stared in awe as bowler Sudeep Tyagi bobbed his head and shook his hips to the music, surrounded by...
Obama down by three, Mukherjee in the lead
Barack Obama lost points in my book today: One for hypocricy, one for foolishness, and one for downright cowardice. With North...