The Golden 80s

I was mostly listening to 80s and 90s style heavy metal in 2011 more than anything else. In the last two months I was listening to songs from Malmsteen's Trilogy, Poison's Greatest Hits, more of Guns 'N Roses, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Dokken, Faith No More, and less of Satriani and Steve Vai. Apart from these classics, I did check out some of the new bands like Vains of Jenna, and Crazy Lixx. Throw in a bit of Velvet Revolver, one or two songs of Saving Abel, Deep Purple (Slaves and Masters), Keel, 2011 was damn headbanging stuff. 1.  You Don't Rememeber - Malmsteen 2. Blame It On Love - Crazy Lixx  3. Look in Her Eyes - Vince Neil 4. Bloodstreets - RIOT 5. Kill the King - Masters of Reality

The last one month has been the month of Mullaperiyar , a dam in the Idukki district of Kerala. Keralites, especially the politicians, are sure that frequent earthquakes will break the dam and kill lakhs of people. Tamil Nadu is sure that nothing will happen as the water will "simply" flow to the Idukki dam and rest there. Era of disaster porn and empty jingoism .  Indians will wake up in New Year to the amended Lokpal bill which will "undoubtedly make India the only place in the planet with zero corruption. Just like Kareena Kapoor 's size zero. No soul in India will dare to be corrupt because of Lokpal. Just say the word, Lokpal; the corrupter will shudder and pee in public. Religious rules sometimes create trouble for certain self-styled intellectuals . Rules are rules.  I cannot agree more with fashion designer Julie Kagti's remarks that fashion in Bangalore is getting more influenced by Bollywod. In a city where everybody on M G Road, Brigade Road, o...