Sanskrit and the Rolling Stone

Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online

Mick Jagger, an Indo-European language and our national motto all became trending topics after the release of Satyameva Jayate by the group Superheavy featuring vocals by Jagger, A R Rahman, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone and Damian Marley.
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Someone with the handle Jay Hind reacted with this tweet: 'Jagger singing in Sanskrit? The whole world is taking revenge for Sonu Nigam singing in English.' Percy Bharucha asked, 'Why would you do that to us, Mick?'
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And there was this from a certain Stuart Heritage: 'Can someone tell Jagger and Joss Stone that it isn't 1993 anymore?'

Lynch mob
Nearly five years after Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament attack, filed for clemency, the home ministry asked President Pratibha Patil to reject his plea. Reactions to this were decidedly mixed. Sorbonne75 tweeted: 'Hanging Guru will not deter jihadi terrorism. I used to advocate his hanging, but no longer do so.' Anamika Dabas wanted to know, 'Why can't people like him be hanged the minute they are arrested? What's the point in keeping them alive?' And Payal Upadhyaya had this cynical view: 'First delay justice, preserve convicts and then use them to circumvent tough questions on corruption.'

Is it all over?
'This is the beginning of the end for Team India.' That tweet, from Aditya Chatterjee, spoke for a lot of people as India continued to play awful cricket against England. Faking News tweeted: 'By not lasting a full five days, Team India wants to prove they are still number one in limited overs.' Someone else wanted Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri to be recalled as 'they are getting paid by the BCCI anyway, and might as well play.'

The last word
A dream scenario courtesy filmmaker Shekhar Kapur: 'Imagine Parliament being a giant computer, untouched by human greed, with each of us being able to vote instantly on every issue.'

Lindsay Pereira is Editor, MiD DAY Online