Emotionally Speaking

Poem on Anna Hazare

The following Hindi poem on Anna Hazare has been written by JNU Student Rashwet Shrinkhal. The poem praises Anna Hazare and points out how the crusader is helping the nation. This poem was his response to a critical poem lampooning Anna Hazare on the net (Read the negative poem on Jairam Shukla’s blog) Excerpts: मैं [...]

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Quick rhymes on Osama’s death

These rhyming lines were written after Osama bin Laden’s death. These are just funny rhymes written mindlessly taking cue from newspaper reports. This will be useful for anyone looking for political humour, political rhymes, or poems/rhymes/slogans on Obama/Osama. The following lines also criticise Pakistan for obvious reasons. Osama is dead, Obama has said ‘Davy Jones’ [...]

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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 wing. [...]

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