Do we need foreigners to tell us things about ourselves? I feel yes. Whatever is said by a white skinned person is said to be the truth and whatever by a fellow Indian is considered untrue.

 Perhaps we are still to get over the colonial hangover. Perhaps we still want to be ruled. Perhaps we have no self esteem. I may join a hundred reasons with the Perhaps, but the fact remains that we not seem to trust ourselves and our Indian brethren....

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Last week the media went berserk reporting about the media ombudsman. I would say it is nothing but just a gimmick by both the media and Home Minister V S Acharya. Had the media been really bothered about its freedom of expression, the hue and cry would have been understood. But it does not seem to have any genuine interest in safe guarding its freedom.

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The Indiranagar hit and run case may go as yet another case for many, but never for those who knew Dr Ramanathan Pennathur (72) and his friends. He and his two friends who were on a morning walk and a cyclist on the way to work were killed when a drunken youngster mowed them under his car.

I had been Dr Pennathur’s neighbour and continued to be his patient. He was the Rs 10 doctor as we fondly called him. The doctor who has his house and ‘Sundar Clinic’ on the posh CMH Road charged just Rs 10 per consultation. From the poor who came to him he charged only Rs 5 and sometimes did not charge them at all. This is when in the same locality the other doctors charged minimum Rs 200 per consultation....

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The story of Slumdog Millionaire is true; especially the hopes and the dreams that a quiz show promising big money can give.

My grandmother was also one of the dreamers, who thought that a quiz show could make anyone instantly rich. So innocent was her understanding that she felt that the host was a very rich man who gave the prize money from his own wealth....

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