Entries from January 2007

January 25, 2007

Patriotism

Come 26th January or 15 th August and patriotism is the most talked about word. This time although it was our honourable Information and Broadcasting Minister who started this debate. He described Nimbus unpatriotic because of the Nimbus Prasar Bharti embroglio over the braodcast of ODI series (cricket) between India and the West Indies. Anybody [...]

January 23, 2007

Have market forces completely taken over Patriotism

Yesterday was a big day for Indian space scientists. The 550 kg recoverable space capsule sent into orbit by our home made PSLV C& rocket 12 days ago plunged into the sea .This catapulted India into the league of the top 4 USA, CHINA, RUSSIA and CHINA. In the Doordarshan days this would be the [...]

January 22, 2007

This one for you Nana

I am missing my Nana (grandfather)  a lot these days. A few days back I read this post by JV (’Observer‘ blog in my blogroll).  On his blog he has lots of URDU GHAZALS, some of them he has tried to translate in English. I thought that there are very few people interested in Urdu [...]