If I feel strongly about something, comment about it will appear here.
- A man whom I was instrumental in introducing to journalism has gone to be with his maker, well before his allotted three score and ten. I can only weep silently as I pay tribute to Allen Mendonca, someone whom I considered a brother and a very fine journalist. read more
- A coach can make a great difference to a team. In New Zealand, Graham Henry is slowy ensuring that the talented All Blacks are reduced to a shambles. read more
- Attacks on Indian students in Melbourne are driven by a latent racism in society. read more
- Matthew Hayden is refusing to accept reality - and wants to hang on as long as he can in the Australian Test team. Spare us, and please go. read more
- Is the Australian cricket captain bigger than the team? Shouldn't he be putting the interests of the team first? read more
- There are some myths about the Australian cricket team which have been spread around by the media. It's high time these were busted. read more
- If the Americans leave Iraq, one thing is sure to happen - world oil prices will fall. And as the Iraqi oil industry gets back on its feet, those prices will fall even further. read more
- A twenty-something from an under-developed part of India has shown remarkable captaincy skills in a cricket tournament in Australia. But the cricket writers have a lot more important things to neigh about. read more
- India has broken Australia's run of Test wins - for a second time. And the Australian captain has come out of this defeat smelling of something other than roses. read more
- The cricket row between India and Australia has just proved something we all know - he who pays the piper calls the tune. read more
- New Zealand has choked in the rugby world cup again. So what's new? This year they decided to leave at the quarter-final stage, that's the only new thing. read more
- A waste of taxpayers' money. This is the only way to describe a programme about the travails of the Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef run by the ABC on October 1 - more than two months after the man underwent an ordeal. The 45-minute yarn ended up recapping what happened in July - and you didn't need any investigative skills for that. There were even some screw-ups. read more
- A man who taught me much of what I know about journalism has gone to be with his maker. This is my futile attempt to pay tribute to a professional par excellence and a remarkable gentleman. read more
- The World Cup cricket tournament begins in a month and one man is trying to use it to get his old job back. read more
- A year out from the 2007 world cup rugby tournament, the All Blacks are said by some to be already home and dry. Looking closer, one can see that there are cracks in the preparations. read more
- Bill Gates has announced he wants to concentrate on his charitable foundation and step back from involvement in Microsoft. Shades of Nixon is what I think. read more
- The BBC is often cited by Westerners as the perfect
example of an
unbiased news source and as one which still practices the craft of
journalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. read more
- Trying to buy a laptop is something like wandering into
shark-infested waters where territory has been marked out and traders
only live by one set of rules. read more
- Microsoft is now advising customers to reinstall Windows
rather
than waste time cleaning out malware. Why? read
more
- The United States appears to be inching towards an
unprovoked
attack on Iran. Once again, what the public is being told
could
not be more different from the real reason. read more
- The tech bits and pieces website Slashdot describes
itself as a
site which carries "news for nerds." It has pretensions to
being
a
journalistic effort. Nothing could be further from the truth - and this
time the truth comes from the speaker itself. read
more
- Two documentaries from the BBC tell the tale of terrorism
- but
while one advances a powerful argument for the assertion that
governments worldwide have exaggerated the scale of the threat in order
to gain political mileage, the second is a feeble effort to assert the
status quo. read
more
- On November 8, 18 men were arrested in Melbourne and Sydney on charges of allegedly belonging to terrorist groups and in some acquiring chemicals to build bombs. The lead-up to the whole saga makes for interesting reading. read more
- Reducing the sublime to the ridiculous takes some doing. The ABC's Liz Jackson has done an admirable job of reducing a once serious program, Media Watch, to a ridiculous exercise in stupidity. read more
- The Australian public broadcaster recently ran a fine example of investigative journalism - which was neither investigative nor journalism. read more
- When people are taken out of their comfort zone, they tend to go into the foetal position. Yes, they look for solace by blaming the outsider. read more
- Who will be believed by the media of a Western country - a white man or a Muslim religious leader? No prizes for guessing. read more
- In what is perhaps one of the most public cases of the pot calling the kettblack, John Howard has asked Japan to remember its past and make amends. read more
- The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has passed on. It remains to be seen who will lead the movement which came to be synonymous with his group, Fatah. Is his passing a blessing or a curse? read more
- The Australian prime minister has won another term in office - despite being exposed as someone who is economical with the truth, inclined towards a policy of assimilation and one who will exploit anything and everything to stay in power. read more
- Following the September 11 attacks on the US, a number of authors have made big money off the CEO of terrorism, Usama bin Laden himself. For the most part their work is shoddy and sensationalist. Here's one example which I came across a long time back. read more
- It is one year since the coalition of the killing began a senseless invasion of Iraq, claiming that Saddam Hussein had batteries of weapons of mass destruction. Now it looks like that was a big lie, one that was manufactured solely to create a pretext so that America could find a way of gaining control over Iraq's oil. read more
- The All Blacks have finally come unstuck - a match later than my prediction but due, in part to the persistence with a centre who was all at sixes and sevens when the big time arrived. read more
- The business end of the Rugby World Cup has arrived. Channel 7 is still wondering why the audience numbers for its telecasts have been so low. And New Zealand are set to commit harakiri once again. read more
- The Rugby World Cup kicks off on October 10 and Australia is worried that its team may prove to be an embarrassment. I think they should bother about the commentators equally - this is a time when the country will be in the spotlight and no more so than on television. read more
- The September 2001 attacks in the US have served as a pretext for many countries to crack down on fundamental liberties. Australia is leading the way with recent legislation being even more draconian than anything the US has put in place. read more
- America has finally got its war in the Gulf, the first stage in its bid to reshape and refashion the region as it sees fit. The outcome which was planned more than a year ago has finally come to pass. read more.
- The World Cup cricket tournament has done nothing for the game. If anything, it hasonly served to devalue the game more. read more.
- The US intervention in Afghanistan has been touted as saving the country from this, that and the other. It is nothing of the sort. It will end in the same way that other interventions did. read more.
- News for nerds. Stuff that matters. Yes, that is the slogan of the so-called geek news site Slashdot. But does the site really know what geek news is all about? Or is it a bunch of no-hopers with a heavy US bias? read more.