North by North West

Restrain social media! Are you crazy??

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:37:18 +0530

Haven't we always talked about things with people we know and sometimes with people we don't know that well? Isn't that what being human is all about? Isn't that what

Trumpeting Elephant vs Hissing Dragon

editor@ibnlive.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:24:11 +0530

Myanmar/Burma was once a part of British India. Does that make it ours again? Tibet once extended dominion over parts of China. Does that make China a part of Tibet

Hooda-Nit?

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:22:02 +0530

This Sunday had northern Chandigarh awash in the uniform of Haryana's Jatland - white and not-so-white kurta pyjamas with sneakers. Throngs descended at Governor Paharia's residence to attend the swearing-in

Revolving doors in Punjab

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:59:04 +0530

Captain Amarinder Singh and his party did a first at the Chandigarh Press Club recently. Rated as the country's best Press Club, it is a rather superior watering hole. The

Yo-yo politics at work

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:14:35 +0530

Hove Kakaji di Umar Lameri (may Kakaji live long) crooned Punjabi singer Hans Raj Hans. The Kakaji is obviously Sukhbir Badal, Punjab's Akali Deputy Chief Minister. Hans Raj Hans is

The logic of terror

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:03:31 +0530

It always makes my heart swell with pride when we are called a big Muslim population nation-a fact that many of us sometimes seem to forget. We are the third

Jammu: Ground Zero, Danger Ahead

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:46:13 +0530

After we were chased back by the crowds at Kathua, we speed back to Madhopur, a dusty, dirty, muddy water pool area which is the last Punjab outpost. We park

Jammu: Ground Zero, Day One

editor@ibnlive.com — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:23:33 +0530

Ahead of us is our white coloured outdoor broadcast van with its big satellite dish pointing straight ahead, advertising its presence magnificently. On regular broadcast coverage trips I feel comfortable

Debating a Marshal's death

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:02:35 +0530

India needs to wake up! A Field Marshal, a legend, a father figure, a soldier who could never retire passes away into eternity, and the Home and Defence Ministry squabble

Let the tigers Die, Part II

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:30:55 +0530

When I wrote the first blog on letting go of tigers, letting them get wiped out, there were many who took serious offence to it, saying there could be nothing

Let the Tigers Die

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:33:34 +0530

Let the Tigers Die Why save the tiger? What exactly are we trying to preserve here? A beautiful animal, an entire ecosystem or the genetic diversity of

Citizen Journos, WikiTV, CNN IBN and the neo communists

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:50:31 +0530

Citizen Journos, WikiTV, CNN IBN and the neo communists Should journalists fear for their jobs? After all what is it that we do? Well, for one, we hang

The Sky Road

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:55:32 +0530

This is a tribute to the frontier road builders of India. And this is a tribute to the unity that makes India. A road that puts the fear