World Watch | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012

Hola! Whassup folks! What a week we had! A siege in France, can you imagine?! A young disillusioned French of Algerian descent, who killed three Jewish kids, a rabbi and three Muslim French paramilitary troops was finally cornered in downtown Toulouse … and bang! The drama starts! Did he surrender? Read more...

World Watch | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012

Bonjour! Comment ça va? How are we today? Apparently the world is still round, with no odd nuke meltdown or tsunami warning anywhere. US/Israel/Iran mega-borefest is just where it was a couple of weeks back, so is the North-South Korean drama, and the Indo-Sino-Pak threesome. Putin “managed” to win Read more...

World Watch | Issue 2

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012

Aloha! Guess who’s back? Yes, the same Indian wordsmith, who got a chance after tickling the nostalgic side of your editor. Or maybe it was a quota thing, we Indians are used to quotas. Anyhoo … The world was as usual very interesting – not as interesting as my roommate finding 36 tin can openers in Read more...

World Watch

Posted 3:15pm Saturday 25th February 2012

Kia Ora and welcome to the very first World Watch, a whimsical look at the stranger goings-on in the world. I was pretty lucky to get to write this column, considering that Critic already boasts a little short of seventeen thousand volunteers. But I somehow cornered our sprightly young Editor, and Read more...