Sunday Columns

Three editors who write a weekly column in their newspaper(s)are :Gautam Adhikary(DNA),Vir Sanghvi(Hindustan Times)and M.J.Akbar(Asian Age & Deccan Herald).Times Of India,being Times Of India,has too many columns by editors(same at DNA,but there at least you know that Adhikary is the editor in chief)..Bachi Karkaria,Jug Suraiya,Swami Aiyar etc who all may be more chief than the editor whose name comes in fine print at the end page.
Akbar,this week,was writing about Alaska...as he generally does nowadays,not about Alaska but about some foreign location...just not the same Akbar who used to write about the Jagannath Mishras in mid 70s in now defunct SUNDAY or about Maliana massacre ....he has outgrown those days and also those touch...his columns nowadays sounds much more pontificating...
Pontification ,anyhow,is speciality of Vir Sanghvi..this week he did so on how the war on terror was lost though the battle was won..One fallout of globalisation is that now Indianeditors like Sanghvi pontificate more on US President's follies than on Indian Leaders' performance.

Adhikary,on the other hand,has stuck to his statesmanlike advise on soft issues-related to how we have become accustomed to or have surrendered to shortcomings(corruption,non integrity etc.)in search of shortcut.
Jug Suraiya has also become more of a travelogue than a satirist...describing his (along with Bunny)visits to,again foreign countries..editors are not visiting places like varanasi or Meerut nowadays,it seems....
Karkaria took a trip down the memory lane to Kolkata reliving her childhood memories explaining how many surnames are just a derivation of places....Generally we use to think it is the other way round...Thanks..Bachi.