KUNAL DESHMUKH: (WITH) THE LOINS OF PUNs & JABs..!!!

Oh dear! Excuse the typo error. I meant the Lions of Punjab since I am personally & always immensely impressed with men of courage, wisdom and vision. Somehow my title went into sounding into an innuendo.  I will choose the liberty of thinking that perhaps those with a sense of humour would enjoy this inconsequential comedy of errors! Infact, I do think that I posses a rather healthy and liberal sense of humour. What is life without a hearty laugh and comical twists of absurd yet funny incidents? Pick up the newspaper and it will tickle your mind with some of the most bizarre & fantastical stories you will ever hear or read. I must say our new breed of journalists have learnt to grow a funny bone and have taught us the same. Interestingly our new age news makers don’t fail...

Column: Why is Sebi finding it difficult to track Sahara investors?

Arun Kejriwal The imbroglio involving the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and Subrata Roy-led Sahara Group is not a simple case of money being taken and not returned to investors; neither is it a shady deal like the Saradha scam. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had overseen the refund of over Rs 22,000 crore to about 40 million Sahara investors by a handpicked committee a few years ago. Neither the committee faced the problem of identifying investors nor it doubted their existence. Certainly, the apex bank has greater knowledge of investors, and a refund of this amount of money to such a large base...

SAHARA SEBI: IMAGINE !

Let’s Imagine! Imagine Charlie Chaplin not being the legendary comedian that he was. Or Arnold Swarzeneger not the action icon we all know him as. Imagine Sachin Tendulkar not being the celebrated cricketer but a regular 9 to 5 school teacher or if electricity was never invented. What would it be like if Newton had never discovered the Law of Gravity or Einstein had not made those elaborate inventions?  What if Elvis continued driving trucks or Satyajit Ray wasn’t an illustrious story teller? Difficult and rather unfamiliar and absurd hypothesis! Would these people be still famous, brilliant and celebrated if they were not in their chosen professions? What would have our lives been like in the absence of these people or their world changing contributions to humanity? The answer can...

SAHARA - SEBI: THE MURDEROUS POUND OF FLESH

As funny as it may appear but the Sahara Sebi issue strangely reminds me of Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”. For those who did not comprehend the context, I’ll draw the parallel for you. SEBI disguised as the vindictive, devious Shylock, drags Antonio (in this case Sahara) to reinforce his absurd claim to Antonio’s 1 pound of flesh (interestingly the pound of flesh here refers to the approximately 20,000 crores). As readers, we all knew that Shylock was nothing short of killing Antonio in the court of law. A befitting analogy to the Sahara Sebi dispute. As preposterous as the title may sound, the witch hunt against the Sahara supremo, Subrata Roy Sahara, is inches away of being an ill intentioned corporate honour killing in progress by the highest authorities perched...

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