Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
26 July 2010, 03:37 PM IST
When the British prime minister, David Cameron, comes visiting India with a high-power business and political delegation this week, he will be armed with a very potent advice to do business with Indians. According to the UK’s respected business daily,...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
19 July 2010, 07:01 PM IST
Ever since I came back from South Africa after witnessing the hugely successful FIFA World Cup championship that they hosted, the one question that gets fired at me invariably is how their preparation compares with what we are doing for the Commonwealth Games...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
10 July 2010, 05:20 PM IST
In the dismantling of apartheid, South Africa has experienced perhaps the most momentous event the world has witnessed in our lifetime. Before someone jumps up and says that event should be India's independence, I repeat, 'in our lifetime'. A lot of us were...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
28 June 2010, 05:20 PM IST
A lot has already been written, talked and debated about the goal that England were denied yesterday as they played their arch-rival Germany in the pre-quarterfinals of the World Cup football tournament. I honestly have no intention of writing about the denied...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
08 June 2010, 03:37 PM IST
If you love your nation and are looking forward to the largest sporting event that it is getting ready to host, the Commonwealth Games, I have one serious piece of advice for you – pray. Given the awful state of preparedness, be it venues, catering, athletes...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
31 May 2010, 05:20 PM IST
If you live in a rapidly urbanising India, especially in the North, and feel that things are getting from bad to worse as far as civility, sensitivity and respect for law is concerned, you are not alone.
I go out cycling almost every morning, at the crack...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
25 May 2010, 04:01 PM IST
How many of you saw the Prime Minister’s first press conference yesterday? If you did, and felt thoroughly bored through the 1.5 hours of sheer torture, spare a thought for me. I was in the same hall.
Now, all over the world, the head-of-state...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
20 May 2010, 11:53 PM IST
This is a sad development indeed. A 20-month-old tigress has died in Bandhavgarh. She was found limping a day earlier and passed away close to a water body yesterday. With tigers being on the endangered list and their numbers dwindling rapidly, there is...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
13 May 2010, 12:58 PM IST
It has generally been my attempt to pick topics for my posts that affect us, the common people. I would also like to think that these make some difference to us, somewhere, somehow. But seldom have I written on an issue in an as agitated a state of mind as...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
05 May 2010, 05:19 PM IST
The foreign minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, has joined a growing list of dignitaries who have taken on the task of advising India on how to handle its own affairs. Stubb, on a two-day visit to the country, has suggested outrageously that since India and...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
29 April 2010, 03:07 PM IST
If this post makes you feel you are looking at a letter to the Editor by an irate citizen, exasperated with the red tape and stupidity of government offices involved in public dealings, please don’t be surprised. For, that is the intention. The post...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
21 April 2010, 10:28 PM IST
The government in the national capital is clueless as to where the radioactive Cobalt 60 that surfaced in a scrap dealer’s yard came from. Even as the unfortunate dealer struggles for life in a Delhi hospital, and his equally clueless family worries about how...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
12 April 2010, 08:08 PM IST
The director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai has run foul of the ministry of home affairs for letting two foreign correspondents in and even allowing them to click pictures at the facility that is not only of great strategic importance but is...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
06 April 2010, 07:44 PM IST
Two powerful, smart-alec, endowed with the gift of the gab, exceptionally urbane ministers in the UPA government, Kamal Nath (surface transport minister) and Jairam Ramesh (minister for environment and forests), cannot see eye to eye. Lawyers of the two...
Posted By
Rajesh Kalra
22 March 2010, 04:42 PM IST
One normally associates governments with sloth, indifference, uncompromising attitudes and inflexible approach, while the private sector is credited with all that makes things work. However, there were two instances last week that show there are times...
Rajesh Kalra is the Chief Editor of Times Internet and responsible for innovations. A journalist for two decades, he also tried his hands at entrepreneurship in between. Although he has written on several subjects, he has a weakness for IT and telecommunications. He is an avid sportsman, a trained high-altitude mountaineer and a marathoner. His blog, Random Access, will cover issues that take into account these varied interests.
The views expressed in Random Access are the author´s own.
