Posts by: Patriot Bureau

Patriot Bureau -March 3, 2018

Long live Sridevi, Journalism is definitely dead Spectres of former wives haunting present wives. A reporter standing in a bathroom next to a bathtub on the side of which a wine glass rests. Amar Singh as an expert commenter on how much alcohol filmstars consume. Nasser Abdullah and Simi Chandok forming a crack team of […]

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Patriot Bureau -March 2, 2018

Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail Nationalism is an unaccommodating relic and in today’s globalised world it represents a dangerous anachronism. There is nothing constructive that Nationalism can achieve in peacetime that Patriotism can’t. Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail. Problem comes when the tail wags. As it did […]

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Patriot Bureau -March 2, 2018

People living in remote villages close to the LoC in Uri sector had to leave their homes following the worst exchange of artillery fire in 15 years since the 2003 ceasefire At 8.15 am on February 22, Lal Hussain, 30, a resident of Charunda, one of the last villages along the Line of Control (LoC) […]

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Patriot Bureau -February 20, 2018

THIS YEAR’S WINTER OLYMPICS WITNESSED HISTORIC UNIFIED TEAMS OF SOUTH AND NORTH KOREA. BEIJING USED THE 2008 GAMES TO SHOWCASE ITS POWER, AND RUSSIA’S PUTIN USED SOCHI AS THE CURTAIN RAISER FOR HIS INVASION OF CRIMEA The Olympics, be it the summer or winter ones, has forever claimed to exist above politics, and transcend it. […]

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Patriot Bureau -February 18, 2018

INDIA’S WRIST SPIN DUO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE TEAM’S FIRST SERIES VICTORY ON SOUTH AFRICAN SOIL Fashioned by the top order and sewed together by  wrist spin, India have picked up their maiden bilateral series in South Africa across any format (barring a one off T20). This is a unique achievement, and one that […]

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Patriot Bureau -February 15, 2018

TRUMP’S BERATEMENT OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS USING GAMES TO PROTEST AGAINST POLICE KILLINGS OF BLACK PERSONS, HAS MADE THEM MORE INFLUENTIAL. AND THE MOST VOCAL TEAM, EAGLES, BEAT THE PRESIDENT’S FAVOURITE, PATRIOTS Super Bowl, the culmination of America’s National Football League, is possibly the most-watched single-sport event in the world. The organisers of the Olympics, […]

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