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Mayank Chhaya
Journalist trying to be a full-time writer
Interests: Everything and nothing.
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Red rock
Posted yesterday at South Asia Daily
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One more "breakthrough" new particle, really?
Every time physicists announce the discovery of a new particle my confidence in physics gets slightly more atomized. (Get it? Particles, atomized?) CERN, also known as the Large Hadron Collider, has just announced the discovery of a new particle called... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at South Asia Daily
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Some quick observations about Supreme Court's judgment over President Trump's financial records
Even as the US Supreme Court first said today that President Donald Trump must hand over his financial records to prosecutors I told myself that it will not allow the same access to US Congress where Congressional Democrats had demanded... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at South Asia Daily
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Here is to Ennio Morricone
Growing up in Ahmedabad in the 1960s and 70s, it was natural that Laxmikant Pyarelal came to me before Ennio Morricone (pronounced ennyo mo ri ko ney). Hence ‘Taron mein saj ke apne suraj se” from the 1971 film ‘Jal... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at South Asia Daily
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A booster shot of faint reflected glory
Posted Jul 5, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Here is to Saroj Khan
Saroj Khan, who died at age 71, was one of India’s most defining movie choreographers. This song composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal and written by Rajinder Krishn was one of Saroj Khan’s earliest pieces of choreography and as far as I... Continue reading
Posted Jul 3, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Javed Akhtar on Sahir Ludhianvi versus Majrooh Sultanpuri
Last night, as part of my radio interview series 'Stars Aligned' for Bharat FM I had the extraordinary poet-writer Javed Akhtar as my guest. We spoke for about an hour and a half in now what I am being told... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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About my writer's desk
Posted Jul 1, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Somewhat personal reminiscence of P V Narsimha Rao on his 99th birth anniversary
Today marks the 99th birth anniversary of India’s late pioneering reformist Prime Minister P V Narsimha Rao, with whose five-year tenure about half of my posting in New Delhi as a journalist coincided. During that posting I met him many... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Some observations about John Bolton's moral calisthenics
The one question that former National Security Adviser John Bolton has been aggressively and even disdainfully asked—by the way, rightly so—is why it is that he was willing to say for two million dollars (his supposed book advance) things about... Continue reading
Posted Jun 27, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Preparation H1B
We might as well call it Preparation H1B. That’s how Indian technology professionals are feeling now. The way these work visas, which go to Indian tech professionals in a vast majority year after year, have been temporarily suspended by President... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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No headline required
Posted Jun 24, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Galwan, Google Earth and a fraught view
Posted Jun 23, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Of Google searches and personal data as a currency
I have never understood why people did not and still do not realize that Google searches are not free at all. You and I and billions of other suckers pay Google in personal data which as we now know can... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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A return to the story Tahawwur Hussain Rana in Mumbai terror attacks case
Eleven years after US prosecutors first claimed in a court memorandum that Dr. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian of Pakistani origin resident in Chicago, had prior knowledge of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, he has been rearrested on... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Not quite a Bolt-on from the blue
We have had to long redefine what constitutes a damning conduct in public life during the Trump era. Everything feels like cavalier, up-yours transgression and yet nothing seems to eventually work. Now comes an even more damning insider account from... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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To Sushant Singh Rajput
Posted Jun 14, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Really, Anna Wintour? This late in the game?
Posted Jun 13, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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The general and the president
It is commendable that America’s top military official, General Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has apologized for walking along President Donald Trump across Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. for a photo op after protesters... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Universality of free fall--Albert Einstein was right, Again
Posted Jun 10, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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A serene music album of Dalai lama's mantras to coincide with his 85th birthday July 6
Posted Jun 9, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Reading Sonia Shah's ‘The next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move’
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Two very short stories
Two very short stories. By Mayank Chhaya There was once a very hungry, very lonely cannibal. He ate. *** Erwin Schrodinger had a cat that he did not have. The End Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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In memory of Sunil Dutt
On his 91st birth anniversary today, I am thinking of Sunil Dutt today for several reasons but two predominant ones—one his emotional demonstrativeness and the other inherent decency. Of all movie stars I have met and interacted with in some... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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Some observations about deploying military in an era when police looks like military
Reading Michelle Goldberg’s regular column in The New York Times today about “Tom Cotton’s fascist op-ed”, I was set thinking about something tangential. She rightly denounces Republican Senator Cotton and a strong votary of anything and everything that President Donald... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2020 at South Asia Daily
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