Dear Readers: If you are a fan of “House” please stop reading RIGHT NOW. Major spoilers ahead!
For those of you who have been following “House” half as obsessively as I have – you should know that this weeks episode had a major shocker. Dr.Lawrence Kutner (our very own Kal Penn) committed suicide. I knew that this was going to happen almost a month ago . The Ausiello files predicted the death of a major male character on a leading TV series, I narrowed it down to “House” and I …

Today is International Women’s Day. I cannot wish all our readers a “Happy Women’s Day” because truth to be told there is not much to be happy about.
The Times of India says so (link)
Studies show that a woman is raped every 35 minutes in India; female child mortality is higher than male by 25%-50% in India, Bangladesh and Nepal….. the average South Asian woman’s risk of dying in childbirth is a hundred times greater than for a woman in an industrialized country
Before we start congratulating ourselves on living in the …

Growing up we were told: Keep your head down, eyes averted , be ladylike .The nuns at school would not let us run in the hallways – no matter what the emergency. We had to walk like ladies, talk like ladies.
The conventional wisdom drilled into us when we – oh so often – encountered that loathsome breed – the roadside Romeo was -Don’t respond. Don’t acknowledge the insult. Don’t make eye contact. Keep your head down,keep traveling like nothing happened – like no-one was saying filthy things or passing lewd …

Where does one start in the saga of Sanjay Dutt?  This spoiled brat son of highly respected parents Sunil Dutt and Nargis Dutt- both actors and Members of the Indian Parliament – has time and again proved that he seems to be a few cards short of a full deck. The gossip rags in the des have to thank him for providing unending fodder – from his days doing drugs, stints in rehab, numerous romances, broken marriages to Richa  and Rhea , his arrests for anti national activities , transcripts …

The constitution of India begins “We, the people of India”. Nowhere does it say “We the people with exceptions…” . So I cannot figure out at what point the Government of India decided that a complete section of people can be excepted from constitutional protection. I read this article in the “Times of India” which deals with the court case being heard in the New Delhi High Court. A group of activists has requested a change to Section377, specifically a :

toning down of the act …

If you are desi, you will know that the Indian cricket team is currently touring Australia. And things have not been going well for India. Australia have been their usual efficient selves while the Indians, hampered by a mind freeze by their own board that pooh poohed the lack of preparatory games before the test matches and some horrific umpiring, have since crashed to successive twin defeats at Melbourne and Sydney. While all the chatter on and off the field was animated, the actual play by the Indian team …