Flying Trapeze

Big Boys play at night

editor@ibnlive.com — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:15:24 +0530

India's northeast, like the rest of the nation, seems to be hit by the IPL virus. In Thomas Freidman's flat world, IPL, the pundits tell us, is a genuine global

The Phantom of the Opera

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:37:28 +0530

Current Scenario "I am neither in the dark, nor in the knowhow, I am somewhere in-between", was Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's response when I asked him about the

No Time For The Dead

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:47:00 +0530

There is no Northeast beyond Calcutta. That is what many believe and often unfortunately that is what appears to be true. India's Iron Man Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as the Deputy

Chasing The Old Monk

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:49:14 +0530

Dalai Lama means different things to different people. To some it means that I am a living Buddha, the earthly manifestation of Avolokiteshvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion. To others it means

On the margin

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:23:19 +0530

Sirajuddin Ahmed does not believe in votes. Last time he stood in a queue to vote was on February 14, 1983. Four days after that Ahmed's parents and two of

States too distant to remember?

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:48:36 +0530

MANIPUR: You can never douse a flame by putting a cloth over it, the cloth itself will burn - Manipuri saying On October 17, 2008, I received a

Still crazy after all these years

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:31:31 +0530

Just a few days back some of my friends and I were at the Manas Sanctuary in the Assam-Bhutan border. We were staying at a forest bungalow on the banks

Modi Madness

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:54:41 +0530

We...bow to him ...with the manly, unbroken pride of the ancient Norsemen who stand upright before their Germanic feudal lord. We feel that he is greater than all of us,

The genius of Euler

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:16:54 +0530

If you are a nerd, you probably know why, this year, it's cool to celebrate April 15 in Basel town of Switzerland. Not that if you are not a nerd,

The 'Bankim' test

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:37:09 +0530

Remember the Tebbit Test? In 1990 British Politician Norman Tebbit proposed the Cricket test that told the ethnic minorities in United Kingdom they wouldn't be considered truly British until they

The Dutch Suicide

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:00:25 +0530

Children in Holland do not put their finger in a dike to save their town anymore but talk about the land of death. This March a Dutch girl at a

Searching Mr Sankrityayan

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:22:26 +0530

This blog is about a (re)meeting with Rahul Sankrityayan. Mr Sankrityayan was a widely travelled scholar and a Marxist theoretician. Only book, written by him, that I have read is

For Sale: Football Air

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:57:55 +0530

The credit for this blog entry entirely is Amitava Kumar's. Had I not read his blog, this bit about Chinese capitalism would have gone unnoticed. Li Jie, the CEO of

How the Left was tempered

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 13 May 2006 02:14:17 +0530

On the day of the election counting Brinda Karat, CPI(M)'s first and only woman politburo member came for a live discussion on CNN-IBN. Before she went on-air, she said that

Jazz Run

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:45:35 +0530

A Jazz run, a blues walk, a funk groove, an alaap. For those interested in this please go to http://delhi.conversationtech.com/hftmusic/ SmallStory/abouthft.shtml Also, anyone any ideas about their live concerts in

20 questions

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:56:51 +0530

How do I phrase this delicately? There is this man of strong views. He knows almost everyone on this planet. Everyone who matters anyway ... He has an opinion on

The win-win formula

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:47:50 +0530

Is it possible to mix ideals with politics and win? There is a new group of Europeans. And they are planning for an eventual parliamentary seat by 2009.

Dirty Dancing ( with addendum)

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:12:32 +0530

Bombay this is for you: In New York City there's an infamous Cabaret or the Footloose law. (information: thanks to New York Press) It dates back to 1926. The law

Old friends, Coolest Tortoise

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:16:54 +0530

My friend Adwaitya died in Calcutta. He was 255 and was the only living witness to the Battle of Plassey in June 1757. I met Adwaitya when I was

Riverbend

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:00:29 +0530

... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend... A line that defines one of the most widely read blog in the

Ocean's 13

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:53:21 +0530

It could not have been better. Works of Monet, Matisse, Picasso and Dalí, worth a total of £30 million have been stolen from the Chacara do Ceu museum in

Will eleven Iranians play?

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:31:53 +0530

I have finally learned to accept myself for who I am, a beggar for good football. I go about the world, hand outstretched and in the stadiums I plead: 'A

Violence, Geisha, Shanghai, Google ( not to mention of the dog)

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:27:40 +0530

Spotlight on Hemender Sharma, my colleague from Bhopal. He was reporting from Bhojshala the temple mosque site in Madhya Pradesh. This year Basant Panchami and friday namaz coincided. Worshippers tried

Cricket: Game of Death; Sex and the City

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:51:25 +0530

Something I read on cricket and something I had to write about. It's not really a happy subject, though. But it's interesting. Cricket, is one sport, that has an

Dungarpur Uncut, sub sub

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:51:40 +0530

When my friend Shamya Dasgupta called me from Pakistan, he sounded excited. He had an interview that was to expose the cliquish and sectarian mindset of a man managing the

Comrades After Television and Imran Khan

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:08:10 +0530

Who would you support, a Tele-marxist or a tele-Yogi? Swami Ramdev has invited Brinda Karat for a pranayam session at his ashram. She should accept the invitation. Just curious,

Once-a-week-disc jockey

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:17:33 +0530

Flying Trapeze is a name borrowed from A Sunday Statesman, Miscellany column. One and only Late Somdeb Dasgupta was the prolific writer for that space. Hello and welcome.