The Armchair Critic

Upon a Sleepless Sojourn to Follow Cricket

We live in unprecedented times — goes the now-tired cliche. But I’m not referring to…

It’s that time of the year!

23 May 2007 @ 02 : 28 pm

It’s that time of the year again. First week of June is just round the corner. Everybody is talking about when it would start. About how it is going to affect the public this year. Would it take care of what was sowed this year?

Electric Vehicles — How clean are they? [Part 1]

19 November 2009 @ 6:46 am

Electric vehicles are cleaner than fossil fuel driven ones. True or False? Did I hear, “Of course, it’s true!” ? Or was it “False, you’ve only moved the pollution from the cars to the power…

A level playing field

21 November 2009 @ 7:31 am

The Real India

16 July 2011 @ 6:38 pm

What is the Real India? The big cities with a rising middle class, malls and…

Wind ahoy!

8 August 2011 @ 10:25 am

That the once-little town Udumalaipettai, where I spent the first two years of my life, has a lot of wind farms is a well-known fact. That a lot of the wind power generated, especially during peak production periods in August and September, is left…

An Open Letter to Markandeya Katju — Part 1

30 January 2012 @ 5:55 am

Dear Sir,

I want to congratulate you on your not-so-recent appointment as the Chairman of the Press Council of India. Since taking over, you’ve done some amazing things, some…

A generation grows up, finally

24 November 2013 @ 2:09 pm

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when it was sacrilege to say anything against Sachin Tendulkar. Unless of course, you were the parent or grand parent of a boy who ignored school, sleep and all else when India…