Got myself a Blackberry recently, triggered by two reasons: the seemingly endless wait for the iPhone 3GS India launch and some pretty aggressive pricing (under 16k, approx $320) & advertising from Airtel-Blackberry. Buoyed by the prospect of the Mac version of official Blackberry desktop software being launched this month, I ventured into unfamiliar territory. The Airtel network coverage sucks at my place of work and so there I was on M G Road, trying to…
The other day there was a Barkha Dutt-hosted, We the People on NDTV, where they debated Indians’ obsession with fairness. I managed to catch glimpses of it and it had all the makings of a typical cacophonous debate on the telly these days. There were the experts, Alyque beaming through live from an alien land (I wonder if he plugged his favourite Liril and Lalitaji story elsewhere in the show. Hee hee.), Prahlad Kakkar saying…