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July 2008

July 24, 2008

Rape of Minors and official + religious sanction?

Two minor girls are kidnapped in Pakistan aged 12 and 10. They are Christians. The...

July 16, 2008

AP photographers with suspicious credentials in insurgent areas

Journalistic ethics are always in question when one is dealing with times of human tragedy....

July 03, 2008

Olympics, Mia Farrow and Darfur – what to do

PBS-TV recently carried two programs (can watch one online) reporting how the govt of Sudan...

June 2008

June 17, 2008

Peace loving and violence: a dialogue of Kashmiris

"Stop talking of Kashmir, if you do not know what happens there!" burst out Khurshid....

June 10, 2008

Prostitution in an Islamic Republic

Iran has an Islamic regime. The Islamic dress code is enforced and so many other...

March 2008

March 20, 2008

Syndrome of blaming the Victim and a hallucinating Pakistani analyst

I have a friend. She once married the son of her father's friend. The marriage...

March 12, 2008

Spitzer, Law-enforcers, Human failing and a 10,000 years pretense!

A first-term Democrat, built his political reputation on rooting out government corruption, and made a...

February 2008

February 24, 2008

Pakistani Democracy and American farce!

What is wrong with the US? First it tells everybody and his brother to go...

January 2008

January 21, 2008

NY Cops laugh away as man dies on roadside

A few policemen in New York city saw a homeless Guatemalan immigrant dying on the...

January 18, 2008

Indian Government to pay parents to raise a girl child!

In India girl child is treated as a curse! Thousands are killed every year. The...

January 17, 2008

Monitoring Scandal: Bush cronies make money while investors get looted TWICE-over!

Just in.... after so many other scandals.. here is another scandal that involves the thoroughly...

January 15, 2008

PIA ad or a blueprint?

This was an ad from a Pakistan International Airlines in 1979! Was it a pointer...

January 04, 2008

How Barbarian-Scientist Thomas Edison Electrocuted an Elephant for his Greed!!

Thomas Edison - as a person - was never really "Above board"! He was at...

December 2007

December 30, 2007

New Mexico Judge puts 14-yr Rape Victim in Jail!

Its not only those nutty Islamic countries that put rape victims (instead of rapists) in...

December 30, 2007

Rs 153 crores vanish from poors' savings accounts of Indian Postal Offices!

Rs 153 crores that should have been in the Post Office savings accounts in the...

December 26, 2007

Making Bribery Legal and How?

Netherlands is one country where Coccaine and Prostitution is legal. And it does not mean...

December 23, 2007

Women and Islam

This is a very interesting cartoon from IndiaInk.org. The cartoonist is Rahim Baggal Asgari from...

December 22, 2007

Female Infanticide in India

This is one poster (from Amnesty International) that simply got my attention. Very well thought...

December 18, 2007

Indians sentenced for slavery in US

This female has been convicted of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves. Look at her...

December 17, 2007

Qaddafi wants 200 French women in his Tent

For all the talk against adultery and severe - actually inhuman - punishments in Islam...

December 13, 2007

Gulabi Gang – the power of pink!

Suchitra Krishnamurthi talks about the power of the Pink color.. and provides links to this...

December 13, 2007

Fake Government Office in UP with 20 employees!

Today I talked about Belgium having no National Government running the country for last 6...

December 07, 2007

Lowest of the Lowest corporates: WALMART sues its own employee for her medical money!

This is the lowest any employer can possibly get to! And who do you expect...

November 2007

November 30, 2007

3 crore cases pending in Indian courts

This is a usual problem with the Indian legal system. I believe some analysis should...

November 02, 2007

13 million Muslim terrorists in the world – feel better please!

There is always this kind of glossing over on the terroristic streak in Islam by...

October 2007

October 25, 2007

Rural B-School Empowers Women in India!

In 1990, I went to Insitute of Rural Management, Anand. It was and remains one...

October 04, 2007

Women Should not vote as they are stupid – Republican party "thought-leader" Ann Coulter declares!

It took US until 1960's to give women permission to vote, while India gave it...

October 01, 2007

Deafening "Activist" Silence and terrorist Explosions destroy yet another Buddha!

Swat Valley or Shrivastu as it was known earlier (and home of the Shrivastavas of...

September 2007

September 23, 2007

The Nuclear merry go around!

Hmmm.. interesting! So North Korean nuclear material has been found in Syria. And where did...

September 23, 2007

Xenophobia in Germany

A comment was left on my quite an old post on xenophobic situation in Germany...