Guilt today is a global media event. So when Lance Armstrong finally answered the big question about his integrity in the widely televised interview with a, “I’m not the most believable guy in the world right now,” Oprah Winfrey almost brought back her under-performing OWN network from the brink. Lance could have given a newspaper […]
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Abiding Memory
I did not want to write about Whitney Houston’s death because like Amy Winehouse, she too has been turned into a cautionary tale about the failure to deal with success, wealth, adulation and fulfilled dreams. When a glistening firefly crashes and burns..it is the done thing to perform an autopsy upon a life story. Oh, […]
Waiting For Mr Buffett
The other day I caught Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive and founder of Facebook on a dated episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Yes, the same where he declared that he would be donating $100 million to update and revive the public school system in Newark. Despite the resentment I felt at the way foreign channels in India keep palming off stale content to us, I watched […]