The wonder of wonders

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Choice, I tell you, is a bad thing. Give people too many choices and you will never get a clear mandate. Look at our political scenario for instance: if ideology-less party alliances weren't enough - sleeping with the enemy gets whole new connotations - now we can't even decide who we want as our President. And to think that the 'apolitical' President of India would become a political issue; that too, on the Internet. And that's not all. While the Vote for your President debate is on, elsewhere, there is a vote war of a different kind: the 7 Wonders war. And the war's not about WHO makes it to the Wondrous List either. The initial controversy regarding the Wondrous List arose when Egypt rather rudely asked Bernard Werber (the dude who decided we all needed new wonders) to go jump off a Pyramid for even 'daring' to dislodge....

But you cannot rape the press!

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So, we have yet another Rape Report, and this time, the purported felon is a designer fellow by the name of Anand Jon. He is a man Newsweek magazine had declared one had to "watch out for" in 2007. Sure. Counting as of today, Jon has pleaded not guilty to 13 of 46 counts - involving 18 victims, between the ages of 14 and 27 - of sexual misconduct towards women... and kids. I don't know what is going to happen to Jon: He is out on bail and there are allegations that some of the charges might be cases of disgruntled, aspiring models getting back at him. However, what I do know; is that I am sick of reading Rape Report after Rape Report. And it really doesn't matter if it's a Jon, 'Jahnny', Janardhan and whether it's New York or New Delhi. Despite being....

Tulsi 2: Return of the Bahu

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We are all such hypocrites that we deserve another Tulsi to happen to us. First, we crib about the fact that Indian soap operas - particularly the ones dished out by Queen of Sob, Ekta Kapoor - are sad, promote stereotypes and are regressive. And yet, if the TRPs are anything to go by, someone is definitely watching these serials. If you and me have declared that what these serials portray is trash and not how 'real India' is... why are people watching them? Almost all stories on the Death of Tulsi mention how the character portrayed by actress Smriti Irani was far removed from "what happens in real India" and is a stereotype of the 'typical, Indian housewife'. But erm, aren't these soaps meant for the housewives? And really, what DOES happen in real India? Agreed that maybe you and I don't wear....