Ron Paul Comes Out Strong In Iowa Poll
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Politics, USA | 2 Comments »Mitt Romney might have won Iowa's Republican straw poll (as was expected) but Ron Paul's performance was credible too. He came in fifth with 9.1% of votes. Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to ignore him. The write-up at Washington Post ...
Silence Is Not Secular
Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics | 2 Comments »Barkha Dutt writes a fine piece in Hindustan Times on the recent assault of Taslima Nasreen titled The Secular Silence. She writes: As far as I’m concerned, Qureshi or Akbaruddin Owaisi (the Hyderabad MLA who led the attack on Taslima) are ...
Selective Amnesia
Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics | No Comments »Dilip wonders why Manohar Joshi has suddenly lost track of his statements regarding Srikrishna Commission Report. Joshi is also on the record saying that he would prefer to resign than take any action against Bal Thackeray or Shiv Sainiks. Meanwhile, ...
WTF Moment Of The Week: Maulana Tauqeer Raza
Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics, WTF Moment | 2 Comments »Religious Leaders + Votebank Politics + Zero Perspective = Disaster IMHO there is just one good solution for everyone demanding head of Taslima Nasreen: force them to read all her crappy books. No, seriously. Noting that Nasreen had made "derogatory references against ...
Party With A Helluva Difference
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics | No Comments »Dynastic Policitics + BJP = No Surprise It is no surprise that there is just one Muslim in the list of 316 BJP candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections. No serious rapprochement between Indian Muslims and BJP is possible till ...
inheN chaahiye Hamdard kaa taanik C(h)inkara
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 Posted in Humor, India, Politics | 6 Comments »The Gujarat forest department has sent a notice to Aamir Khan for allegedly violating the Wildlife Act during the making of his film Lagaan in 2000, when he had filmed a chinkara without permisison in the Kutch district. When asked what ...
WTF Moment Of The Week: Rediff.com
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Posted in India, Pakistan, Politics, USA, WTF Moment | 7 Comments »Today morning when I opened rediff.com, there was a very surprising headline at the top, "US didn't have guts to offer us same N-deal : Pakistan". Now, based upon previous record, at least one thing is certain; the Pakistani establishment ...
kitnaa hai bad-nasiib Zafar dafn ke liye
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Posted in Politics, World | No Comments »do Ghaz zamiiN bhii na milii kuu-e-yaar meN? If you still are not sure what is happening in Lebanon, see these photos at Flickr. I have no sympathy for the self-destructive Hezbollah and I am totally against Israel meting out collateral punishment ...
Rajiv Gandhi On Mandal Commission
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 Posted in India, Politics | No Comments »Karan Thapar writes in Hindustan Times about the speech Rajiv Gandhi gave in the Lok Sabha on 6th September 1990 against the Mandal Commission. Then Rajiv pointed out that the report is based on the work of a research and planning ...
Would You Accept A 99.5% Pay-Cut?
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 Posted in Politics, USA | No Comments »Not me and you but some people would. NYT writes about the new Treasury secretary appointee, Henry M. Paulson Jr. took home more than $38 million last year as the chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs. If the Senate confirms ...
