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MAYAWATI'S 'T's TROUNCE CONGRESS'S 'R's 2008-04-17 03:05:00 “Tilak, Tarazoo aur Talwar, inko maro jootey chaar.” This was the clarion call originally given by Mayawati’s BSP to awaken Dalits to challenge their thousands of years old oppression by the three upper castes, Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas. The call was then to metaphorically shoe-beat the upper castes to actualize their potential to lead the country.These three ‘T’s still remain th
CHINA AND INDIA: BULLY AND FOREVER BULLIED. 2008-04-15 04:51:00 Children take part in a week-long military training before they enter primary school at a kindergarten in China's Tianjin municipality. Source: The Times of India-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Just when the Indian Ministry of Defence (MOD) was resting content after misguiding and misleading the nation in its latest annual report by completely i
INDIA 'S 'POWER': WEAKNESS=VIRTUE, STRENGTH=IMMORALITY 2008-04-12 02:13:00 The uprising in Tibet is the latest in a long series of developments in India’s neighbourhood that has exposed India’s congenital inability and lack of desire to get itself to be counted as even a small player, forget a major one, in the region.The ongoing protests against Chinese oppression in Tibet have seen India bend twice over backwards like a little nation so that the Chinese are not ann
THE 'CLEANSING' BATTLE FOR DELHI BEGINS. 2008-04-08 02:04:00 The knives are out and the battle has now truly been joined in UP.The rumblings had started some months back, after the Congress was badly mauled in the state elections that followed the one in UP last year. The bravado of dumping Mulayam Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) on the imagined strength of Brand Rahul Gandhi had given way to the sobering reality that the Congress was falling into a bottomle
SEPARATED IN A FAIR? 2008-04-07 01:49:00 Can you identify these two gentlemen bearing an uncanny resemblance to each other? They are probably the twins who had got separated in a village fair many years ago, in true filmy fashion!One grew up to be the President of a country and had everything going for him, even if "Ma" was not with him, Deewar style. Then one day, when all seemed to be going well, he arrogantly got into a prickly Bush w
IS PETROL REALLY THAT OVERPRICED? 2008-04-05 10:59:00 The pinch of rising petrol prices is being felt by every one, particularly those who have to pay for their fuel. Every one is also alarmed that the price of crude oil has effortlessly crossed the psychological barrier of $100 per barrel and is showing no signs of coming down, signaling a further price hike in the near future.On the face of it, the price of petrol looks outrageously high, partly be Read more:REALLY
MAYAWATI'S MANNA: CONGRESS’S CONFUSION, TIKAIT’S TAUNT 2008-04-02 04:01:00 Recent political developments in UP have been perplexing, to say the least. Alarmed by Mayawati’s rise and rise, her opponents, instead of developing coherent strategies to clip her growing wings, have played right into her hands. They have, with bizarre logic, given her an advantage that even she would have found difficult to create with her own efforts.Let us take the Congress party first. Til
SEHWAG THE SLAYER 2008-04-01 02:21:00 You’ve liked it before, so he’s back with some more, SHAFT’S BACK IN ACTION! So ran the tag line of the 1972 Hollywood flick Shaft’s Big Score, where Shaft was the very black, very cool, very tough sort of superhero, a then unlikely black winner in white America.Virender Sehwag has for long been the grudgingly acknowledged “black” winner in Test Cricket. Coming from the by lanes of sem
1000 TIMES PRESIDENT'S SALARY FOR INDIA'S BABUS! 2008-03-29 00:56:00 This one is more unbelievable than Ripley’s ‘Believe it or not’. Can anyone actually be crazy enough to ask for a salary of, yes, Rs 10 crores ($2.5 million) per month for Indian bureaucrats, when the President of India’s salary has just been raised to Rs 100,000($ 2500)?The Sixth Pay Commission, whose report was submitted to the government on March 24, 2008, has recommended a fixed salary
UNREST IN TIBET: INDIA A MEEK, TOOTHLES NOBODY 2008-03-26 01:54:00 Foreign policy sans military might Is like a mouth without teeth;Often it has to swallow, Not once can it bite.------------------------------------------------------------------------Tibet is on fire. Nearly 60 years back, the Chinese Army occupied that country, with India’s willing concurrence born out of total blindness to its disastrous strategic ramifications. That fatal blunder converted Ti
KARNATAKA: ELEPHANT CRUSHES HAND; LOTUS BLOOMS 2008-05-25 03:51:00 The rout of the Congress party in election after election continues. In its eleventh straight defeat, the once dominant political party has been defeated in the Karnataka assembly elections, the results of which are still coming in.For the first ever time, the Lotus of the BJP has bloomed south of the Vindhyas. The stunning victory of the party, touching the half way mark as this post is being wri
CONGRESS DEFEATED; DECEPTION CONTINUES 2008-05-27 10:52:00 The deception continues. Only the target of this obdurate, mindless deception remains somewhat unclear. Despite facing one more of the almost countless successive defeats over the last two years, the Congress party is not only continuing to play ostrich, it is even trying to fool the people, with the help of some sections of the English media, into believing that no blame can be laid on the doorst
SHARON STONE AND THE YANG OF NATIONS 2008-05-31 13:40:00 For once, Sharon Stone has got herself into trouble for airing her point of view. A few days back, she said something with her trademark candour about the devastating May 12 earthquake in the Sichuan province of China which has claimed almost a hundred thousand lives, still counting. Speaking on the Red Carpet in Cannes, Sharon Stone is reported to have remarked: "I'm not happy about the way the C
IPL: BIGGER THAN BIG AND GETTING BIGGER 2008-06-02 04:50:00 The inaugural Indian Premier League tournament has ended in a befitting climax. A last ball win for Shane Warne led Rajasthan Royals over MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in a carnival like atmosphere has left millions of Indians asking for more.In an earlier post, I had written that the future is ‘Glamricket’. This heady, win-win mixture of glamour and cricket, christened ‘cricketainment’
GOVERNANCE AND THE POLITICS OF PETROL PRICES 2008-06-05 02:07:00 In an earlier post about the defeat of the Congress party in Karnataka, I had written about how Prime Minister Manmohan Singh(mms) had been made almost into a small adult mms clip which is to be viewed only in private. That is what the party had done to him, getting him to make only one election speech to a select few in an auditorium. For the first time since Independence, the man who holds the c
OSAMA AND OBAMA: SAUL AND PAUL 2008-06-07 03:41:00 On June 03, 2008, Barak Hussein Obama Jr, made history by becoming the first African American presumptive Presidential nominee of any major US political party. Beating the powerful Hillary Clinton in a close and hard fought battle for nomination, Obama appears to be on course to the Oval Office, with Clinton too throwing her weight behind him.On September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden made history of
BACK TO BLOGGER SUB DOMAIN 2008-06-09 01:11:44 Last night, after I finally saw the post of June 7,2008 posted in my custom domain appear on Google web search, I thought, well, it was possible to live with the previous four posts that were still invisible in the search engines. Then, when I looked up Google Blog search, it was simply not traceable. The next post also met with the same fate.It appears that posts on the custom domain start gettin
NEW POSTS IN CUSTOM DOMAIN INVISIBLE ON GOOGLE SEARCH 2008-06-09 00:35:27 After about nine months of blogging on Blogger’s free hosting service, I thought it was time to get a custom domain to publish my posts on this blog. This decision was influenced partly by seeing some bloggers whose sites I frequent do so and partly by the advice of other successful bloggers on their blogs. So, on May 23, 2008, I switched to a custom domain mirroring the title of my blog.In orde
OSAMA AND OBAMA: SAUL AND PAUL 2008-06-07 04:07:19 On June 03, 2008, Barak Hussein Obama Jr, made history by becoming the first African American presumptive Presidential nominee of any major US political party. Beating the powerful Hillary Clinton in a close and hard fought battle for nomination, Obama appears to be on course to the Oval Office, with Clinton too throwing her weight behind him.On September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden made history of
GOVERNANCE AND THE POLITICS OF PETROL PRICES 2008-06-05 02:50:18 In an earlier post about the defeat of the Congress party in Karnataka, I had written about how Prime Minister Manmohan Singh(mms) had been made almost into a small adult mms clip which is to be viewed only in private. That is what the party had done to him, getting him to make only one election speech to a select few in an auditorium. For the first time since Independence, the man who holds the c
IPL: BIGGER THAN BIG AND GETTING BIGGER 2008-06-03 08:28:59 The inaugural Indian Premier League tournament has ended in a befitting climax. A last ball win for Shane Warne led Rajasthan Royals over MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in a carnival like atmosphere has left millions of Indians asking for more.In an earlier post, I had written that the future is ‘Glamricket’. This heady, win-win mixture of glamour and cricket, christened ‘cricketainment’
SHARON STONE AND THE YANG OF NATIONS 2008-05-31 13:40:02 For once, Sharon Stone has got herself into trouble for airing her point of view. A few days back, she said something with her trademark candour about the devastating May 12 earthquake in the Sichuan province of China which has claimed almost a hundred thousand lives, still counting. Speaking on the Red Carpet in Cannes, Sharon Stone is reported to have remarked: "I'm not happy about the way the C
CONGRESS DEFEATED; DECEPTION CONTINUES 2008-05-29 07:09:19 The deception continues. Only the target of this obdurate, mindless deception remains somewhat unclear. Despite facing one more of the almost countless successive defeats over the last two years, the Congress party is not only continuing to play ostrich, it is even trying to fool the people, with the help of some sections of the English media, into believing that no blame can be laid on the doorst
KARNATAKA: ELEPHANT CRUSHES HAND; LOTUS BLOOMS 2008-05-26 01:18:38 The rout of the Congress party in election after election continues. In its eleventh straight defeat, the once dominant political party has been defeated in the Karnataka assembly elections, the results of which are still coming in.For the first ever time, the Lotus of the BJP has bloomed south of the Vindhyas. The stunning victory of the party, touching the half way mark as this post is being wri
NOT HONOUR KILLING BUT MURDER OF HONOUR 2008-05-23 14:31:25 For the last one week, India has been gripped by a sensational double murder in NOIDA on the outskirts of Delhi. A 14 year old girl Arushi, the only child of dentist parents, and their 45 year old servant, Hemraj, were murdered under the most mysterious circumstances on May 15, 2008.For one week, the local police displayed their famed ineptitude in failing to follow even the very basic rules of i
OBAMA AND JINDAL: HANUMAN AND THE MONKEY 2008-06-10 04:24:00 Time magazine recently had a photograph of Barrack Obama displaying the things that he carries for good luck. These include “a bracelet belonging to a soldier deployed in Iraq, a gambler’s lucky chit, a tiny monkey god and a tiny Madonna and child.”Indian TV channels have been carrying this photo and suggesting that tiny idol of the monkey god that Obama carries is of Hanuman. Time magazine
MIGHT OF T20 JUGGERNAUT BEGINNING TO SHOW 2008-06-13 12:58:46 The unexpectedly stupendous success of the inaugural tournament of the Indian Premier League(IPL) is already beginning to impact the world of cricket like nothing has since the game was first played.The ongoing Fifty50 Tri Series between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is the first one to be hit by the IPL hurricane. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, speaking after India scored a 140 run victory
AC BUSES FOR DELHI: STICK TO YOUR CAR 2008-06-17 00:04:11 Delhi is home to 14 million people, not counting those who live technically just outside its limits but are Delhiites for all practical purposes. Over 1.6 million Delhiites own cars while 3 million own two wheelers.To help this huge mass of humanity commute in this vast and largely horizontal city, there were just 7,000 buses as of August 2007. This number should have gone up to around 10,000 by n
WHO HAS CORRUPTED INDIAN CITY NAMES? 2008-06-18 07:32:56 In the Hindustan Times of May 17, 2008, it was a surprise to read Vir Sanghvi’s argument that the name ‘Bombay’ was of British origin and had no Indian reference point pre-dating the British. Karan Thapar also made a somewhat similar argument in the same paper on June 07, 2008, to include Madras and Calcutta too. Both these gentlemen obviously love the colonial names of these cities, among o
NUCLEAR DEAL: IT'S YOUR PAGRI AGAIN DR MANMOHAN 2008-06-20 04:04:00 The political paralysis that has relentlessly plagued a government boasting a dream economic team has landed the ruling United Progressive Alliance(UPA) exactly where it dreaded it would. Inflation has touched a 13 year high of 11.05 percent, the Indo-US Nuclear deal remains hostage to sordid politics of the worst kind and the government, with both its hands tied by the petty political compulsions
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