Posted by: Jolvin on: December 6, 2008
Oh my great state what has become of thou!
Thy politicians are fighting o’er pohe and pav.
To each it’s the food of the soil
Yet it’s all a clever political foil
Oh my great state what has become of thou!
Thy politicians are fighting o’er pohe and pav.
They beef up their security
While our lives are full of anxiety
Oh my [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: December 1, 2008
Someone took moral responsibility
Someone listened to his conscience
Someone was put under pressure
They all quit
I wonder who will clean up the mess – or will that person quit too?
Posted by: Jolvin on: November 29, 2008
It’s finally over.
Nearly 60 hours of an ordeal that will go down in the history of our country as one of the most trying. A monument left in shambles, more than 160 casualties, close to 400 injured, souls scarred.
As I watched the last encounter taking place glued to my television mixed emotions prevailed, happiness that [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: November 28, 2008
While our state politicians were busy fighting over pohe and pav, vociferously defending the terror attacks in Malegaon and blaming the ATS (Anti Terrorist Squad) as partisan, they gave a red carpet welcome to approx. 26 militants to hold the financial capital to ransom. And this time it was not some coward militants who planted [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: October 3, 2008
Dear Honorable Mr. AR
I’m so stressed the minute I leave the comforts of my home these days. I’m sure I’ll have a nervous breakdown soon as I find people staring at me as though I’m some alien or criminal that people have been wanting to nail down. I don’t know what’s the cash award on [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: August 18, 2008
I never thought I would be so clued in to the Olympics this time around. Having lost interest from the 1988 edition I came back to watch the Olympics with the same zest that I had before 1988. Obviously in those days it was to watch the superpowers like US, USSR, Germany and China fight [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: June 26, 2008
For a boy of 10 years the concept of reaching the finals of the World Cup of One Day Cricket may not have been such a big thing. Only after realising that the only time his country ever won a match before that was back in 1975 that too laboriously against minnows then known as East [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: June 12, 2008
An unknown researcher who specializes in transport planning has recently unveiled in an unpublished newspaper that the problems of transportation in Mumbai will not end even with the upcoming Mumbai Metro project. Taking the cue from the host of tourists who unknowingly have been manholed he has recommended BMC use the vastly unused drainage network as [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: June 4, 2008
The IPL or Indian Premier League for T20 is done and over with yet the hangover is still not gone. Evenings that for once were not about the K factor seem to have gone back to soap and reality shows. I must compliment the BCCI especially Lalit Modi whose brainchild IPL was for making such a [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: March 11, 2008
I was born with the proverbial Silver Spoon under the watchful eye of my master, Or should I rather say I made that into a Golden Spoon. I outdid what my master taught me and came back with honors the first time over, beating my master at the same tricks he taught me. I collected [...]
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