The Madras Music Academy is not going to budge … now that it has the fulsome public support (in the press and on Twitter) of K Veeramani of DK, Kanimozhi of DMK , N Ram (closet-member of the CPM) and from the rest of their tribe . What is the point in all we rasikasContinue reading ““Subha sweekaaram” for “karnaataka sangeetham” at the Madras Music Academy in December 2024″
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A nauseous interview with Siddharth Varadarajan
Reading the interview made me want to throw up 🤢 ! (To read full text of it please scroll right down). Siddharth Varadarajan is to Indian journalism what Arvind Kejriwal is to Indian politics … both arrogate to themselves a moral superiority that’s nothing short of supercilious humbug. Kejriwal and Varadarajan like to think ofContinue reading “A nauseous interview with Siddharth Varadarajan”
An evening listening to Dr. Raghuram Rajan told me little about Indian Economics and even less about Constitutionalism
Last evening I stepped out of home wearing my face-mask braving Omicron in the streets of Chennai to go to the above meeting to listen to the economics guru and dashingly photogenic ex-RBI Governor. I wanted to get a feel of his ideas —- new, fresh and profound if any he had to offer —-Continue reading “An evening listening to Dr. Raghuram Rajan told me little about Indian Economics and even less about Constitutionalism”