For much of the last year, I have been dabbling with new media. It’s not as though I have given up writing this column or appearing on TV, but I have tried to combine the old media stuff I have always done with some new things. Read more

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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Babri Masjid, BJP, bloggers, Internet, Islamic extremism, Jyoti Basu, new media, Shashi Tharoor, Twitter, website, www.virsanghvi.com
If I were a driver, I would take a hockey stick and thrash as many airline pilots as I could get my hands on. Then, if I wasn’t too exhausted, I’d start on India’s politicians and give them a good thrashing too. If you’ve been following the saga of the Kerala MP Abdul Wahab and the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), then you will understand the context.
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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Airline Pilots, Backward Castes, Dalit, Dalit politician, Hockey Stick, Indian Commercial Pilots Association, Indian Muslim, India’sPoliticians, Indira Gandhi, Jyoti Basu, Kozhikode Airport, Lalu Yadav, Mahendra Singh Tikait’s, Mayawati, Poor Driver, Rajiv Gandhi, RK Dhawan