April 2009 - Posts - First Cut

April 2009 - Posts

Confessions of a South Mumbai voter

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
It's quite clear now that voter turnout in South Mumbai will be even less than it was in 2004. Surely after 26/11 these people could have got their act together, you must be wondering. These bloody South Mumbai types. All prime-time talk and no action, right? Before I continue, I have a confession to make (god I feel like I'm in at an AA meeting...

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A contest a day keeps the holiday blues away

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
Two things happened after I wrote this column a couple of weeks ago. My brother said the entire family should meet in Spain in October. And the husband and me got even busier. It began to look like we wouldn't be going anywhere this summer. It was around that time that I discovered contests. I was surfing channels and there it was. My chance to...

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Music and lyrics (and memories)

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
A friend recently recorded a CD to celebrate the birth of a son and couriered copies to my brother and me. I'm so out of it, I said to my brother, I haven't even heard of most of these bands. Part of the appeal of retro music for me, I suspect, is that every song I love reminds me of someone I love or once loved. There are so many great family...

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Want to marry Rakhi Sawant? Just SMS 56388

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
As if all the election fun and games weren't eye-popping enough, Rakhi Sawant's chosen this time to distract the nation by announcing that as a "cultured Indian woman with good values" she's ready to get married. After Jade Goody's gruesome public death, now Sawant wants to tie the knot on the small screen. As she puts it in...

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The politics of shoe-throwing

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
These days, a shoe is the political protestor's weapon of choice. I'm sure all of you still remember the incident last December when an Iraqi television journalist threw a shoe at outgoing US president George W. Bush. A Bagdad court sentenced the reporter to three years in prison. Shortly after the incident, online shoe throwing games were the...

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The battle for South Mumbai

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
Wrote this for Lounge--dont miss the election special--it's out on Saturday, 4 April This general election, citizens in glitzy Malabar Hill and Cuffe Parade will vote for the same bunch of candidates as voters in Parel, Worli, Sewri and Byculla. Call it the democratization of a constituency or the assassination of its character-either way, the battle...

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