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"I’m tired of monkeyin’ around"

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: January 7, 2008

The new year has got off to a racist start – at least on the cricket field. A brown skin, skinny, Asian fellow has been accused of racially abusing a fair (almost) skinned, burly anglo-saxon. This must be the first time that racism has happened in almost the reverse order in which it traditionally has [...]

Bhoole Toh Nehi?

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: December 7, 2006

Power corrupts – absolute power corrupts absolutely. What is not said here is what happens if someone absolutely corrupted is put through strenuous self-inflicted rehabilitation. Perhaps the turnaround is as quick as the corruption was. There is little doubt that it was absolute power that made Saurav Ganguly go corrupt and lose everything he ever [...]