Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
17 May 2010, 09:30 PM IST
While the casualty numbers keep increasing as one tunes in to the news – 30, 40, 50? – it is apparent that the Maoists’ endeavour to add body bags is no half hearted effort; more policemen, more SPOs die, as a state within a state challenges, threatens, then...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
12 May 2010, 10:44 PM IST
For MS Dhoni to have to point out that “if you are playing late night games, if you go to the parties and come back late and travel the next day, it takes a toll on your body” was kind of bizarre. Anybody with a penny’s worth of common sense can make that out...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
04 May 2010, 06:06 PM IST
Since I have – like so many of us – been following the Kasab theatrics, post 26/11, and have over the past year posted my observations, for whatever they are worth, on the manner in which we, as a nation, have gone about this trial ( Ajmal Kasab Ki Gazab...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
28 February 2010, 04:12 PM IST
There is this massive hoarding on the way home when I drive back from work. It sells a pension plan. In doing so, it proclaims emphatically, "When the 9 to 6 routine ends, that is when life begins."
I emphatically disagree.
Ergo, what we...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
18 February 2010, 05:05 PM IST
A few months back, when I wrote a blog post on how it was convenient to hold the police accountable for all the system's ills, while nobody gave a damn about the conditions in which we made the 'brutal and corrupt' forces work, I expected to be branded...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
31 January 2010, 05:33 PM IST
Mayawati owes her political existence to upper caste-bashing and espousing Bahujan cause: True Mayawati wants upper caste votes and is all for Sarvajan harmony: Equally true
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BSP and BJP can never be allies again: Self-evident...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
27 January 2010, 11:16 PM IST
There are a few things in the past few days which may, or may not, have a link, but they seemed to have an underlying thread. They served to bug me, however, fairly thoroughly at that, so much as to provoke an awakening from prolonged blogging hibernation....
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
24 November 2009, 07:18 PM IST
Amidst all that is being written, read, and discussed on the ‘anniversary’ – how does that word make sense here continues to befuddle me - of 26/11, the reason I, humble, ill-informed hack sitting in an air-conditioned office, am harping on Kasab is primarily...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
18 August 2009, 09:51 PM IST
Two things at the outset – I haven’t read Jaswant’s book (who has?) and I am not interested in the internal ideological gymnastics within the BJP-RSS conglomerate. So please don’t expect me to assess whether Rajnath is right or Jaswant is, and whether the...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
04 August 2009, 08:25 PM IST
"India's status as the world's largest democracy is undermined by a police force that thinks it is above the law," says Brad Adams, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch, in a recent report.
I disagree.
I think India's status as a democracy -...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
31 July 2009, 08:52 PM IST
A Wednesday had this slick, immensely enjoyable scene where a Bollywood star, asking for protection against extortion threats, confides to the police commissioner that he is being targeted since he belongs to the minority community.
When the...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
08 July 2009, 12:57 PM IST
The recent encounter killing of a Ghaziabad-based MBA student Ranbir Singh by the Dehradun police has made it to the news nationally, among other reasons, for the fact that President Pratibha Patil was touring Uttarakhand when this news broke. The usual drill...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
29 June 2009, 04:06 PM IST
It is interesting to read about the quintessential anti-establishment neta, Lalu Prasad, meeting his successor in the Railways Ministry, a neta so anti-everything that she makes Lalu look like a model of political conservatism. The agenda of the meeting: Lalu...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
14 June 2009, 07:38 PM IST
Logging onto the TOI homepage, looking at the big story of the hour, I read the headline "BJP should give up Hindutva: Vaidya" and pretty much choked. I was glad that I wasn't holding my regulation afternoon cup of coffee, else it would have been all...
Posted By
Anshul Chaturvedi
12 June 2009, 12:17 AM IST
The Amarnath yatra is about to begin. Last year, Omar Abdullah’s speech in Parliament during the course of the no-trust vote, which made him into a YouTube phenomenon with a considerable fan following overnight, was focussed to a significant degree on the...
Anshul Chaturvedi doesn't quite know how to sum up stuff about himself in a couple of lines, not smartly enough at least, so he isn't trying, either. Hopefully, you'll figure it out as you go along. He's shy of being tagged - he doesn't admit to 'belong to' any place or mindset easily, and hopes he hasn't been typecast at work either - yet! He attempts to scrutinise high society and the glam world from the vantage point that his current job as the Delhi Times editor gives him. Personally, he spends time reading through the likes of Vivekananda, Iacocca and Covey, watching cricket, and consuming everything on WW II that he can find.
He's a sort of a contrarian ('nonconformist' is overworked, na?). He likes to explore how managers can be monks. How things that are socially correct can be personally incorrect. How unlearning is often more relevant than learning. Being a 'philosopher' isn't his cup of tea, but he pleads guilty to philosophising on random issues - sometimes. As will his blog!
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