Chai Sanju Baba

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It was a long wait...after a long chase...Sanju Baba was finally out and the media was waiting to get a statement from him. So there we all were, camping out at Nargis Dutt Road in Pali Hill, waiting for Baba to say something. Baba came home and understandably, disappeared into his house. Camera crews, journalists, press photographers, drivers all of them waiting in that narrow stretch of road. All of them up since the wee hours of morning waiting for Dutt. Some on watch since the previous night. All of them famished. But Pali Hill is a residential area, so there were no dhabas and tapris also. So how is one supposed to wait? We did not have the patience of the fans who had come all the way from Meerut and Ajmer and Indore. There were handicapped men, slum dwellers and eager women. Was it all staged? After....

Orkut - To ban or not to ban

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May your soul rest in peace! Sympathy pours out on the popular social networking site for Adnan Patrawala, the 16-year-old Mumbai boy, who was abducted and later killed by his acquaintances. His profile has more than 10 pages of RIP messages from teens across the country. With Adnan's death, Orkut is again in news for all the wrong reasons. Some police sources say that the conspiracy might have been hatched on Orkut. But this is not the first time Orkut has been under the scanner. It first came into news when the 'I hate India' website was discovered. Then the Sena made the anti-Orkut sentiment popular by attacking cyber cafes in Mumbai over an anti-Shivaji community. Brazil, where Orkut gained its initial popularity, is also grappling with cyber crime on orkut. Fake identities, hate communities, crime plans being communicated, fake dates being set up and extortion....the list goes....