Silly Point

Silly Point

A tale of two handkerchiefs

Narendra Modi is a leader of the grandiloquent gesture. Prime Ministers of the past, when they won unprecedented victories in parliamentary polls, did...

A-new-slogan-on-Kashmir-Narendra-Modi
Silly Point

Silly Point : A new slogan on Kashmir

IT was with a sense of déjà vu that one heard the new slogan coined by Narendra Modi to delineate the future policy...

narender-modi-cup-of-tea
Silly Point

Silly Point : Blessed are the poor

THE cognoscenti who keep a sharp lookout on national events must have noticed with suppressed smiles the BJP’s deliberate effort at establishing poverty...

sashikala-former-cm-tamilnadu
Silly Point

Silly Point : The Chinnamma drama

WE in the Aryan belt of India are lucky. We are not subjected to the kind of melodrama that was recently witnessed in...

Silly Point

Silly Point : The anatomy of surgery

THESE days the only topic of conversation in the Indian sub-continent and the surrounding SAARC region is Surgery. The last time when surgery...

Silly Point

Silly Point : A modern-day churning

THOSE of you who remember the story of Samudra Manthan will recall that the Devtas led by Lord Indra had lost heaven to...

The-cat-is-out-of-the-bag
Silly Point

Silly Point : The cat is out of the bag

AT last, the cat is out of the bag. What was driving diplomats around the world crazy is now making sense. Look at...

Silly Point

Silly Point : After Aurangzeb, who?

A small news item tweeted that Aurangzeb Road in Lutyens’ Delhi which houses some of the richest men in India has been renamed...

Silly Point

Silly Point : PM vs. PM

Modi: Sat Sri Akaal, Sardar Sahib. I hope you are well. Manmohan: I am as all right as you permit me to be,...

Silly Point

Silly Point : The return of Rahul

Rahul: Come on, chaps. Don’t keep on discussing ad nauseam and wasting time. Tell me what to do. Jyotir: We told you bluntly....