All posts by Alok

How BS Yeddyurappa has Survived 11 Attempts to Remove Him (so far) – Part II
May 26, 2011, 3 Comments

Part I | Part II | Part III In 2010, when the BJP’s campaign to oust Ashok Chavan as Chief Minister of Maharashtra ...

How BS Yeddyurappa has Survived 11 Attempts to Remove Him (so far) – Part I
May 23, 2011, 7 Comments

Part I| Part II| Part III Another attempt at the (political) assassination of BS Yeddyurappa fails. That makes it the 11 ...

Vacations
May 21, 2011, 5 Comments

(This is a supremely personal take on an issue most working adults in this country find hard to live with: Supreme Court ...

Overheard in the Supreme Court of India – I
April 29, 2011, 4 Comments

(After a long time, I am back to doing Supreme Court “fact”-ion. In the claustrophobic crowded courtrooms on ...

Highlights
April 28, 2011, Comments Off

Why would anyone want to watch the highlights of an IPL match? Especially when, by its very nature, T20 and more so, the ...

The Ghosts of World Cups Past
April 11, 2011, 3 Comments

I have memories only from the 1992 World Cup onwards; when the cricket neurons in my brain were slowly growing and formi ...

How to have an ignorant opinion about the Service Tax on legal services…
March 29, 2011, 2 Comments

So the service tax on individual lawyers is going to see the light of day, and barring a Stay on the provisions of the F ...

An Offence against Cricket
February 24, 2011, 3 Comments

The Indian Penal Code, still in force and copied almost in toto in most ex-British colonies is a remarkably drafted docu ...

Toy Story 3
February 22, 2011, Comments Off

(… bringing you to the final lap of our scintillating review of this year’s Oscar nominees, Danish weighs in ...

The Kids Are All Right
February 19, 2011, 1 Comment

Danish reviews for us "The Kids Are All Right"; a film with an unconventional premise that draws its strength from the w ...