Commentary
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Why Secularism/Anti-Corruption Won’t Feed Me And My Family OR Why I’m Voting For Narendra Modi
There’s a bit of a back-story, so please bear with me. I think the journey (yes, I’d call it that) started on the New Year’s eve in 2008 (as in end of 2007, did I get the usage of New Year’s eve right?) with that long and highly charged up discussions with Pole & Seth. We were in high Continue reading
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Why I Want Rahul Gandhi To Become The Next PM And You Should Too
Because, . . . . . . . . . . . Come on, you thought I was serious? Isn’t today the only day when I can make such jokes! Continue reading
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The Nuclear French Kiss
A few days back, I was going through the pages of The Hindu and came across the an interview with Anne Lauvergeon (aka Atomic Annie) , CEO of Areva, the French nuclear giant. I was aware that the French President was visiting India soon and the primary purpose was to sell the French nuclear capability Continue reading
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What Will You Say About Yourself?
One of the trickiest and perhaps the toughest things to do, apart from deciding what to do when stuck in lift moving up and down many floors, is writing about yourself. At any point of time, you never really understand yourself completely. And even if you are under the false impression that you do, you Continue reading
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The Great Indian Middle Class
Tonnes of newsprint, miles of television tapes, years of television airtime and millions of calories of energy(ok, that was a bad one) have been spent on analyzing, debating and arguing about the Indian middle class. Honestly, all this noise got to such nauseating levels that people who constitute the middle class have ended up becoming Continue reading
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Why Film-making Is Such A Wonderful Experience
You’ll know what I’m talking about if you have been involved in any form of film-making. For those of you who haven’t, you will perhaps understand what I’m saying in about 20 minutes after watching the two videos below. Add a minute or two to read what I’ve written before the videos! These videos are Continue reading
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Dear Aniruddha Bahal, It’s Not Funny
Dear Aniruddha Bahal, Not a week passes in my life without I mentioning strongly recommending Bunker 13 to people I come across and who seem even remotely interested in reading among those. If I were deeply religious, one would have observed that I go back to Bunker 13 more often that I go to the Continue reading
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Koel – Kahaan Gayi Teri Boli?
[Promise to myself – This is the first and last time that a post is entirely about a celebrity] Maybe this post was supposed to be about Rock On!! Or it was supposed to be about my our music story or about Vajra, our college band comprising of Mrinabh, Joji, Chinsi and Shubam which I Continue reading
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Hazaaron Khwahishein Nahin, Bas Ek Khwahish
Dear Kirkireji, I hope you, like I do, believe that this is your best song till date. I do not say best song ever because I believe, hopefully you also do, that there are many more such gems to come from you, both as a writer and a singer. It hurts me no end when Continue reading
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Happy Independence Day – II
I only have this to say. If it takes a jazzed up version of the National Anthem to market our national anthem to our youths , then God save our country instead of the Queen. Maybe I am a little old-school, finding such an experiment with our National Anthem hard to digest. I’m definitely not Continue reading
Nikhil Kulkarni 