About N Madhavan
Narayanan Madhavan is a columnist and editor with HT Business, who has covered everything from economic reform, technology, politics and the Kargil war to Bollywood and cricket in a long journalistic career.
Filmstars have to shoot
Thieves have to scoot
Teachers have to teach
Preachers have to preach [Read more]
It is not easy to elect a Prez
When a coalition is under stress
There’s this camp and that camp
in the race to pick a rubber stamp [Read more]
Posted by N Madhavan on Friday, May 4, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Filed under India, Politics · Tagged AICC, Ansari, kalam, Madversity, N madhavan, national pride, parliaments, Pranab, President, Prez, Raisina Hill, Republic Day, stress, Votes
In a business famous for scams
There are moments that turn glam
When a movie idol or a sporting star
Joins lawmakers from near and far [Read more]
Posted by N Madhavan on Friday, April 27, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Filed under India, Politics · Tagged hindustan times, house of elders, Madversity, master blaster, MP, N madhavan, rajya sabha, Sachin Tendulkar
They are back like a Bollywood sequel,
It seems in an embrace of equals
One is an Anna and the other a Baba
Like they were the Beatles or Abba [Read more]
Posted by N Madhavan on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, anti-corruption movement, Baba Ramdev, black money, corruption, hindustan times, Madversity, N madhavan, news
It’s in the nature of the nation
That we revel in sensations
And what better way to blow a fuse
Than rustle up some spooky news! [Read more]
Posted by N Madhavan on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Filed under India, Politics · Tagged Bollywood, coup, hindustan times, Indian Army, Madversity, Manmohan singh, N madhavan, news, Prime Minister, Raisina Hill, Twitter