15 Years Ago
Shameem Akhtar, Manu Joseph on whether KBC will deliver for Star Plus or Big B: What does the just-launched, maha-hyped Kaun Banega Crorepati prove? That greed binds us all. And that we’re pretty ignorant as a people. Such observations, however, do not do justice to the show that has not just captured popular imagination but hijacked it. Since the Amitabh Bachchan-hosted show hit prime time, the trickle of participants wanting to warm the “hot seat” has become a torrent. http://bit.ly/1eCMY74
10 Years Ago
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on his vision for India 2020: Developed India in 2020 should be a nation where the urban-rural divide has reduced to a thin line. A nation with equitable distribution of energy, quality water and access to quality electricity. A nation where agriculture, industry and service sector work in harmony. http://bit.ly/1ClcPv0
5 Years Ago
CPI (Maoist) leader Chemkuri Azad Rajkumar’s rejoinder to B.G. Verghese a few months before he was killed: Reading B.G. Verghese’s article Daylight at the Thousand-Star Hotel, one is stunned by the abysmal poverty of thought and colonial mindset of this renowned intellectual. How is it that the illiterate, seemingly uncivilised, backward, half-naked adivasi thinks, analyses and acts a lot better than an established, well-read, highly qualified intellectual like Verghese? http://bit.ly/1CYAXhZ
