this is strange.. I cannot find the navakal newspaper in town, but i saw the website has come up since 2 days at

http://www.navakal.com

Shiv sena

Glad it was so much fun! You know what they say. The family that saves together stays together.

Not in the same class as Khushwant Singh, though.

Is Khushwant Singh good? I never liked the short stories of his that I read growing up? Maybe because I felt the language was very plain and insipid, I don’t know. I haven’t read Train to Pakistan though. What do you recommend as good Khushwant Singh works to read?

After the last Munnabhai movie, he is a folk hero, and starring in movies as a person dutifully paying for his crime will really resonate with the Indian public.

But only under threat of life without parole if the third Munnabhai sucks and they destroy the franchise. The trailer for the third one looked quite good.

i browsed through those trancripts (thanks for the link) – i think ‘first-class’ is my new favourite word

Not in the same class as Khushwant Singh, though.

i just picked up death at my doorstep by KS – it’s a collection of obituaries of people personally known to him as well as public figures. i think he ends it with one on himself.

Why not let him rake in millions acting in the 6 or 8 movies he has signed up for and donate the proceeds to a worthwhile charity

? not a bad one. but i think a lot of people would prob. object on the fact that it would be somewhat equivalent to bail – and the notion that this sentence is hitting him where it hurts – he values his freedom more than his money (said amount being somewhat minimal to his already accumulated wealth).

The party was great. Listen to this. One of my cousins in Delhi has the same birthday as mine. Back in the sixties, when both of us were young teens, our respective parents used to economize by combining our birthday parties into one. Turns out that my cousin’s daughter has the same birthday as our wedding anniversary. So we dedicated our 35th wedding anniversary cake to her. After thirty-some years, my cousin and I were celebrating something together again. Now, how cool is that!

Eliot was good reading. I am picking up on Dalrymple now. Not in the same class as Khushwant Singh, though.

Not to go completely AWOL on the thread, here is a thought on Sanju, as the Page 3 glitterati calls him here in Delhi. Why not let him rake in millions acting in the 6 or 8 movies he has signed up for and donate the proceeds to a worthwhile charity? I can guaranee you each one of his movies will be a hit. Even though the majority of public opinion is in favor of the sentence, that does not take anything away from the huge affection people feel for him. After the last Munnabhai movie, he is a folk hero, and starring in movies as a person dutifully paying for his crime will really resonate with the Indian public.

Lost in translation?

If you want to drill civic sense into people, they have to realize that law applies to all.

Six years is too less.

M. Nam

I have written on SANJAY DUTT..

That trial is still running.