Latest postings by Jacob Joseph
The
Hindi film industry got off to a lukewarm start in 2009 with the
over-hyped ‘Chandni Chowk to Chin ...more>>
The story opens in New York with the Egyptian computer
programmer/data analyst Antar discovering an ID ...more>>
The
picture on the left shows a screenshot from NDTV’s website, where they
exclusively discusses the topic of moral policing. What caugh ...more>>
The dance of oil prices is well worth observing from May-December
2008. It went on a historically high price of $147 in July and now
falli ...more>>
On Republic
Day, I had an argument with an ex-mutineer, and a right-wing Hindu
nationalist author. Right ...more>>
Yesterday I
was going from Santacruz West in Mumbai to Chembur on an autorickshaw
and was passing Wester ...more>>
Amidst all
the hullabaloo of economic “boom to bust” on a global scale, and closer
to home of revela ...more>>
We saw the
re-runs over and over again on all the channels. Bunch of men going
about hitting some girls ...more>>
A question that will never be quite settled is related to the extent
of realism in cinema: should cinema expose harsh truth or should it
p ...more>>
The final session of the 14th Lok Sabha, before the General Elections, is likely to begin on the 16th of February and likely to extend till ...more>>
Many of us India have always wondered about where the tax payer’s
money is going. Ever since Rajiv Gandhi made that famous statement
abo ...more>>
Every year, The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
mandates the State Department to report as a way of combating human
traffi ...more>>
I was going through the online photo album of a college senior and
noticed a group photograph of hers whose caption was “the ones with
j ...more>>
Cows and pigs are emotive animals in India. They are what you need
if you want to start a communal riot. Time tested and effective. If
y ...more>>
