Arun Nehru

Mar 31, 2010
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Arun Nehru
Chairman, Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd
Mumbai

Cabal of the ignorant?

Politics is a hard game where there is no place for sentiments. No one expected the Opposition to go soft on the Congress or for the media to play happy collaborator. Yet, in these turbulent times, I think the Congress made the best out of a very bad situation. Things would have been different if action on the two ministers had been taken a week ago. It wasn’t, and eventually Congress president Sonia Gandhi had to rescue the party.

Politics & chit fund kitties

The battle lines have been drawn. This is evident in the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) examining the 2G spectrum allocation scam. There’s a demand to remove JPC chairman P.C. Chacko who had allegedly leaked the panel’s draft report to the media.

The headlines said it all. The Man Booker International Prize had been awarded to Lydia Davis, the American author. But most Indian newspapers in English announced it as “U.R. Ananthamurthy loses out on Man Booker”. You could almost hear the collective sigh of millions of disappointed Indians.

Today, India’s prime actors who are making a bid for international visibility — in roles, major or minor — are amassing reams of publicity and flashbulb attention from the paparazzi. Amitabh Bachchan, despite a brief part in The Great Gatsby, stirred up news headlines and tumult at the extravaganza’s premiere in New York, and then on the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet. Irrfan Khan and Tabu have received an unconditional thumbs-up from the Oscar-celebrated Ang Lee after Life of Pi, Anil Kapoor is a known factor in international enclaves after Slumdog Millionaire, a cameo in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, as well as the TV series 24.

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