For a moment I didn’t believe a word when the agent(s) said people queue up at Rajaji Bhavan as early as 2am for Tatkal train bookings. I immediately cursed my stars as I had received a call from my old colleague of mine in Kolkota to attend a business meet. The meet was to discuss investing in ‘Fil...
Blogs by Ganesan Kannuchamy
“Kolkatta hospital fire kills over 70”. “Fire at Indian nursing home kills 35”. “Hospital fire kills at least 40 in Eastern India”. “Police blame safety violations as India hospital fire kills”. And the list is long. I was dumb-struck at seeing about 3,550,000 results showing up on Google when I typ...
Before debating if ‘whipping’ or ‘boxing someone in the ears’ is a Gandhian principle or punishment allowed under law, let’s peek into (hope, I’m not committing a crime here) the history of corporal punishment. The earliest recorded history of mankind coming under ‘caning’ was observed as early as i...
Kapil Sibal the Telecom Minister of India has been on the news for all the wrong reasons, so to say. This time he spoke about ‘gagging content on internet’ thus setting a new wave of protests from people across the country and worldwide. What an idiot! Nto soon after his infamous comment about the n...
Two states Tamil Nadu and Kerala in India have, of late, been blowing hot and cold over an issue which is as old as one hundred years. Interesting. What is it? A ‘damned’ dam located on the Western Ghats in Thekkadi, Idukki district of Kerala is the ‘bone of contention’ between the two. It’s ‘damned...