Political parties built around dynasties, businesses built using political power, political families with media muscle, and vice-versa, are all individually explosive, even if slightly fragile, things. Together, though, they are pure dynamite, and that is what Tamil Nadu is showing today. Two Three employees of the Sun TV network have been burnt to death, and…
Daily Archives: 9 May 2007
How Bill Gates seduced our castes and tribes
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA, the news and desk head of Mid-Day, Bangalore, wrote this column on May 3 *** Very few of us who work in English language newspapers speak English at home. But that is not why we trip up when it comes to usage. It seems ridiculous for us Indians to lament about the state…