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July 2008

July 25, 2008

The Hypocrisy and the breach of norms of Dr. Manmohan Singh's Vote of Trust speech

Yesterday, India's PM, Dr. Manmohan Singh gave a stirring speech (reproduced below) after winning to...

July 23, 2008

Indian politicians – Role Models for Prostitutes in the world

A guy sees a hot looking female. He goes up to her and asks her...

July 23, 2008

What does Indo-US Nuclear deal mean outside of India?

I had said in my last post that the ramifications of this UPA vote victory...

July 23, 2008

Indo-US Nuclear Deal – UPA wins the confidence vote

So, UPA has finally won the confidence vote and the US-India Nuclear deal will go...

July 19, 2008

Somnath Chatterjee – a partisan speaker

I had discussed the partisan behavior of Somnath Chatterjee.. well, here is one instance. He...

July 15, 2008

Indian MP can be bought for $6 million

No wonder this is regionalization of Indian politics! Its not about democracy or power anymore....

July 11, 2008

Lame Democracy, Federalism and the Nuclear Deal

Image via WikipediaIndia is an extreme democracy. There is an area of tacit principles and...

July 09, 2008

Killing Iranians is a joke for McCain

This is as shocking a comment as can be from a US presidential candidate. John...

June 2008

June 05, 2008

THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT

After a fortnight of uncertainty the UPA Government, hiked the price of petroleum products. As...

May 2008

May 30, 2008

Twist of fates

This week was very interesting: - while Nepal became a secular republic from the only...

May 26, 2008

Thackeray now targets Students

The joker that this Raj Thackeray is anyways.. now he wants to target those students...

May 23, 2008

Future of Pakistan and India

In an article written in July 2001, Kuldip Nayar describes how after the rout of...

May 23, 2008

Orkut/Sonia Gandhi case and application of Indian laws!

This is by far the most ridicuolous case around! A guy was writing stuff like...

May 07, 2008

Obama and Clinton: Changing one's fate

Last night Obama won North Carolina (56/42%) and lost Indiana (51/49%). He leads in the...

May 06, 2008

The Next Great Clash: Interview with Michael Levin

I very rarely find a book that I cannot keep down, specially when it comes...

May 01, 2008

Thackeray, Marathi-ism and future of Hindu Activism

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and its leader Raj Thackeray - nephew of Bal Thackeray -...

April 2008

April 22, 2008

The "N'er-do-well son"

Got this link and picture from a facebook contact. Thought it was interesting enough to...

April 20, 2008

Nandigram nightmare continues: two raped and 8 injured

So much happened at Nandigram.. and a lot of news did not come out or...

April 15, 2008

Perfidy of Indian Leftists in Bengal: scenes of genocide in Nandigram on video

The note accompanying this movie says this: This film is based on original video footage...

March 2008

March 20, 2008

In This Political Season, Health Care Reform is a Business Issue

Here is another guest article for Drishtikone. John Hammergren is CEO of McKesson Corporation, the...

March 19, 2008

How Indian Communists committed Acts of Treason against the Indian state and why they should be banned from any seat of power

I have already talked of the role of Traitors played by Indian Communists in the...

March 18, 2008

Indian Traitors – Communists – look other way while China kills Tibetans

It was officially explained in New Delhi that those arrested had engaged in dangerous activities...

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 25, 2008

Take away Raj Thackeray's Indian Passport!

Can the Central Government please take away his Indian passport and let him travel around...

February 24, 2008

Pakistani Democracy and American farce!

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

February 21, 2008

Why is Narendra Modi so popular – his interaction with the pseudos from Indian press

This is a rather interesting video of Narender Modi on his address at the HT...

February 20, 2008

Busharraf – betting on the wrong horse or the Rider took the horse down?

Musharraf's party lost terribly. Rejected by people. But Mushy was backed solidly by the US....

January 2008

January 31, 2008

Politicians hanker after Ram Setu; while Navy says its a BAD IDEA!

Remember that Ram Sethusamudaram project? Well, it seems that the Indian Navy thinks it is...

January 30, 2008

Pakistan is NOT a banana republic.. we are different!

Musharraf has an issue. It is at the heart of his existence now. The issue...

January 29, 2008

Victim Bazaar, Bilkis Bano, NGOs, and the forgotten Wandhama Massacre!

For long NGOs and the activists in India have made rich careers in activism for...