The predators in Indian politics
Some believe that humans are the most dangerous predators… more dangerous than all the tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, and wolves. To take this analogy further, I’d say that the political eco-system has the potential to produce the most feared predators amongst us. Just look around and you’ll see the lion-like jauntiness, the stealth of a...
Size matters!
In both politics and pornography, size matters. We have just seen a pulsating example of this titillating fact when Delhi was saved from going to the polls again. But if you think size in politics is simply getting the right numbers, you’re really entering the house of real fiction. Yes, numbers and the mathematics of...
Elections, Bigg Boss, and the Note3
The neta has changed, his smile now solicits, his words have a ‘yes’ fed by default into every sentence, and the past isn’t mentioned even once unless it is to remind you of a good deed done or a task completed. These reminders of the past deeds don’t come very often as we all now...
Please turn… I want to kick your backside
Yes, this is how it always happens when you talk about changing or wanting to change someone or something or some place or some attitude or some moment. You invariably have to say: Please turn… I want to kick your backside! Delhi is a stubborn city as the people here are either netas or babus...
I love: More is Merrier!
Ages back one of the products that I promoted was ‘Supristol’ from German Remedies which had this slogan: LESS IS MORE. Of-course, the detailing talked about how LESS dose was getting results that were MORE efficacy… but the point is that those were times when everyone harped on ‘less’. The ideas floating then, included: Spend...
