Was 2011 an interesting year? Ah! Everyone would have individual choices, for sure. Still, it would be interesting to look back at the events that were headlines to Greater Voice. Continue reading
It’s shameful that this tabloid Mid-Day first tried to sell sex and now it has suddenly closed down its Delhi and Bangalore editions, citing resource crunch and fooling its staff and public. Its digital edition cannot be viewed by your family members for its cheap images. Continue reading
Greater Voice completes four years today. Whose voice is this! Yours or mine… can’t say, really. But don’t we speak the same language? Don’t we have the same voice? Continue reading
When a journalist is killed in Mumbai, India erupts — mostly ‘me too’ voice pushers. My condolences to the family of the fellow journalist. Though, it is not the first killing in Mumbai. Condolences also to the families of the four protesting villagers who fell to 15 bullets in Bihar. To my utter shock, a 7-month-old & a pregnant woman are among the victims. O Gosh! No one remains in the family of a Gujarati villager to accept my condolences as all have died of HIV, humiliation, ostracisation, loneliness & hunger. Then, whom should I send my condolences to? Continue reading
The mix-up continues. 1-by-1, day-after-day India’s Most Wanted List handed over to Pakistan is becoming a laughing stock. I’ve not forgotten the similar other gaffe by Home Minister’s colleague SM Krishna who had actually read another country’s speech at the United Nations. Did Krishna played this up, again or is it another act of Aamir Khan of 3 Idiots. Continue reading
Meet Pete Souza — the key link between the public and the US president. He acts from behind the scene… sometimes 24X7, whether aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union or in the White House. Today, he covers Barack Obama like no one does. And he is the one whose pictures of the Situation Room were among the most viewed images across the world, during the raid on Osama bin Laden. Continue reading
When big things happen, I often turn to the walls of my computer room. Well, it is certainly not like a WikiLeaks bunker but that every-which thing is certainly there with which I have grown up. You may say… I love myself. And to that degree I also love this photograph of Jayalalitha who has just decimated her rivals, critics, opponents and all pointing fingers in Tamil Nadu this assembly elections. Continue reading
I was a student when the Soviet Union collapsed. I was still learning when Eastern Europe turned to capitalism. But this Friday, the 13th of 2011, I saw the citadel of Communists collapsing, melting, crumbling before my eyes… just because it was to be a green letter day… and all because of a gutsy, hungry woman named Mamata Banerjee who, I hope, will now be an inspiration to those resisting repressive regimes. Continue reading
Do you think Obama is under any stress these days! Let us look at some of the images of the president in the past few days, immediately after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Cool… I would say. Continue reading
“Why fear him? May you please release the photos, Mr. President,” I wrote to Barack Obama. The White House has received my request and I’m hopeful the same would result in positive affirmation. Meanwhile, the Associated Press seems to have gone a step ahead as the news agency has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all of the photographs and video taken by the US military during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and on the USS Carl Vinson, the ship that conducted his burial at sea. Continue reading
