May 2009 - Posts - First Cut

May 2009 - Posts

More on Mumbai's taxis

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
A reader replied to this column I wrote for Lounge over the weekend to tell me that she has been recording her conversations with Bombay's taxi drivers for some two years now. She said she posts the audio files on her blog, Meter Down , and also makes podcast of these conversations. It's good fun. Enjoy, download from iTunes, whatever. Share...

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Congress highs, media lows

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
Sorry, I was away celebrating the Congress victory...:)))...Now I'm hoping this victory means that the organized right-wingers trawling the Internet will become just a little less organized. I hope you got yourself a copy of our brilliant election special issue? Clearly the editors at Open magazine enjoyed reading it. Maybe Pai is right after all...

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Ram Gopal Varma ke latest aag

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
Mint columnist Namita Bhandare said in today's newspaper that director Ram Gopal Varma should have known where to draw the line. "By subverting one of the last few untainted symbols of hope, of aspiration left in this country, he's not doing anybody a favour," she said about RGV's black take of the national anthem for his forthcoming...

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IC or IT: What's your flying type?

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
If you're a regular traveler in India, you most certainly have a preference. IC types swear by Indian Airlines/Indian/Air India or whatever it is they are calling it these days. The husband is, of course, an IC type. He says it's the leg space, the new planes, the aerobridges and all the other technical advantages that come with being the national...

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Who will save the girl child?

Posted by Priya Ramani at 
I wrote this piece about the girl child this past weekend. I wrote it because every single day the newspapers have at least one devastatingly sad story about another little girl who lives in our neighbourhood. Often, the girl child loses the battle even before she is born. An article in today's Mint reiterates the story of India's missing women...

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