Word Play

Word Play

 The other day my wife, newspaper in hand, interrupted my happy commune with my cup of tea and asked, “what is this ‘recuse’ business? Why is this chap recusing himself from editorial duties?”  Glad to get in a word sideways in the house first thing in the morning, I pontificated as to how judges who perceived a […]

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Loss of Credibility

Loss of Credibility

I had scoffed at Asaram Bapu’s statement when he said that a sure shot way to prevent rape is to call the would-be-rapist “bhaiyya”.   The Khap in Haryana added more flavour by coming out with statements that pointed towards Chinese food as the culprit behind rapes, not men.  Mohan Bhagwat went a step further by claiming Western […]

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Just A Lapse Of Judgement!

Just A Lapse Of Judgement!

In two seemingly unrelated incidents, a woman was brutally attacked in a Bangalore ATM..and in another..a woman journalist assaulted in an elevator by a  high-profile editor in a fit of what he says, was an appalling “lapse of judgement.”  In the first instance, the weapon of attack was a machete. In the second, the sense […]

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