One of the things people say when you complain about politics being dirty is, “But good people don’t get into politics.” This time, some real good people did try. Bangalore South had two highly educated, idealistic men trying to break in. Neither techie-turned-politician Krishna Byre Gowda nor budget airline guru Capt Gopinath could. Defeat is sobering, so let's take a look at what has become of Karnataka’s prominent losers. ...
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Young is a relative term. Modi thinks the Congress, at 125, is a budiya (old woman). Priyanka thinks Modi, at 59, is old. It's possible you'll find college students who think Priyanka, at 37, is not young enough to understand their angst: she just might get angry if they told her what they'd been up to.
This old-versus-young question is eternally old and eternally young, so don't expect politicians, born naturals at flinging mud, to come up with anything strikingly insightful when they discuss it. Thanks to India’s demographics, where 60 to 70 per cent are now under 40, the age debate has become an interesting highlight of the election drama. We used to hear of caste vote banks; since this time young voters will have a say in who will run the Delhi durbar, youth has become a vote bank.
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I read in The Economist yesterday that it takes gallons and gallons of water to produce a single cup of coffee.
I love my cappuccino (a little more than my filter coffee), so I was taken aback to know my brew cost so much in environmental terms.
The British magazine reports: "According to a new book on the subject, 1,120 litres of water go into producing a single litre of the beverage, once growing the beans, packaging and so on are measured. Only 120 litres go into making the same amount of tea."
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Many say Rahman's music for Slumdog Millionaire is "noisy but nice". That phrase could come in useful when you look at his oeuvre as a whole, and try to put in perspective what he has come to represent to his fans in India.
In 1997, when India turned 50, A R Rahman gave Vande Mataram a new, aggressive musical interpretation. A year on, Kargil fund-raisers used the song extensively at their shows. His style won appreciation from the unlikeliest quarters: Swapan Dasgupta, then columnist for India Today, felt the young composer had finally freed the song from "Nehruvian distortions" by setting it to an attacking tune. Another columnist, Tavleen Singh, said Rahman's song was the only cheering item at the 50th year Independence Day celebrations in Delhi.
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David Pogue, who writes a personal tech column for The New York Times, got a mail recently from a reader on what Apple could do to help its customers locate their lost or stolen phones. The reader suggests an application that lets you send, from another phone, a particular code as a text message to get it to text you back with its location.
Pogue comments: "But why stop there? It could also lock itself, send copies of recent e-mail messages and phone logs to you, or start playing a recording that says, "THIS IS A STOLEN IPHONE. CALL THE POLICE!"
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