Last time when I had written about Kashmir, I had said that though the situation is out of control, it is pointless to blame either politicians, state or the Centre. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anurag Thakur, Arun Jaitley, BJP, Centre, kashmir, Lal Chowk, peace, politics, Srinagar, state, Sushma Swaraj, tiranga- yatra, tri colour, Valley
Will he? Won’t he? Should he? Should he not? It is like a game of hide and seek. The guessing game has been on for more than a year but the situation remains unchanged. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 10 janpath, A Raja, cabinet reshuffle, Congress, IPL, Manmohan Singh, P. Chidambaram, pranab mukherjee, Prithviraj Chauhan, Rahul Gandhi, S.M. Krishna, Shashi Tharoor, sonia gandhi
I did not know that film star Dharmendra and his two sons, Sunny and Bobby Deol, were such a draw. In my perception, they are spent forces who have outlived their careers: Dharmendra more than his sons. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Amitabh Bachchan, Ashoka Hotel, Balaji production, Bikaner, Bobby Deol, Dharmendra, Govinda, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan, Jaya Prada, Jitendra, Parliament, Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas, Punjabi Diaspora, Raj Babbar, Rajesh Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Sunny Deol, Vikramjit Singh Sahney, World Punjabi Organization
Sanjay Gandhi has been resurrected. Forgotten for nearly thirty years, both, the BJP and the Congress, are invoking him. For different reasons though. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ambica Soni, amrita singh, BJP, Congress, Dhirendra Brahmachari, Emergency, Ghuam Nabi Azad, Indira Gandhi, Kamal Nath, Maneka Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Ruksana Sultana, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Gandhi