SAVING PRIVATE KINGFISHER By Sanjay Jha First Published On IBNLive.com on February 27th 2012 One of my most embarrassing moments happened on Kingfisher Airlines. Comfortably ensconced in the Business Class after a long day, a charming lady in red, the smiling air-hostess, asked me with immaculate solicitude; Can I clean your reading glasses, Sir? I was too dumbfounded to react, not quite accustomed to such archaic debauch excesses, and almost in a robotic reflex complied with her … [Read more...]

THE LONELY BJP CANDIDATE OF UP By Sanjay Jha First Published On www.IBNLive.com ( The BJP has just 1 Muslim candidate among its 403 in Uttar Pradesh where there live 37 million Muslims. It is symptomatic of the party’s parochial agenda and vote bank politics). I watched the BJP’s spokesperson sporting the familiar self-righteous countenance indignantly trashing Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid’s speech at Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh which has set the Ganges on fire. The Election … [Read more...]