Emotionally Speaking

Prof. Matuk Nath Chaudhary and Julie in JNU campus: A multimedia report

The uninitiated may read about “love guru” Professor Matuk Nath and Julie, arguably India’s most controversial couple, here and here. Yesterday evening [10 pm to almost midnight], the duo [both one-time JNU students] addressed the JNU students at Sutlej hostel of the JNU campus and concluded it with a Q and A session. This is [...]

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Black Flags, Healthy Exchange, Entertainment: Rahul Gandhi in JNU Campus. A first-hand multimedia report

Rahul Gandhi, AICC General Secretary and MP, Lok Sabha was in the JNU campus yesterday [29 September 2009] to address a public meeting on the topic ‘Youth, Politics and Development.’ It was definitely not an ordinary meeting and a lot happened before and during the meeting. This is a first-hand report of the meeting with [...]

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Thieving man caught in JNU hostel, beaten by students: A multimedia report

At about 11 AM today [25 September 2009], a man was caught in my hostel [Sabarmati, JNU] who claimed to know people in the hostel and tried to enter students’ rooms with the intention of stealing.

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The Age of Stupid’s Green Carpet Premiere at PVR Delhi and Shekhar Kapur: a first-hand report

Yesterday evening [22 September 2009] I was at the Green Carpet Premiere of the hard-hitting ‘drama-documentary-animation’ on climate change ‘The Age of Stupid’ at PVR Premiere [Select Citywalk, Saket, New Delhi, India] organised by Greenpeace and tcktcktck [a global alliance of civil society calling for binding climate change agreements] supported by the PVR CSR [...]

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Shashi Tharoor says ’sorry’ in solidarity with all our holy cows!

Click here to read the part I of the report which has snapshots from his twitter account about the ‘cattle class holy cows’ controversy raked up by people who do not understand and appreciate humour!

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Shashi Tharoor and the Holy Cows controversy: Congress’s sense of humour is pathetic

Trouble is brewing over Shashi Tharoor’s tongue-in-cheek twitter remark to a question by journalist Kanchan Gupta [associate editor, the Pioneer] asked on September 14 2009, 11:57 PM on Twitter. The journalist had asked him if Tharoor will be travelling by cattle class in his next visit to Kerela! For the uninitiated [and this may include [...]

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