Just as I was waiting this morning, hoping for the Secularists to speak up, I realize I’ve been preempted, stumped by Hussain Miyaan himself.
The devout follower of Islam that he is, he has agreed to take off the screening of his Chinese torture movie from theatres all over India. It has obviously pained his [...]
This is not the first time that the Islamomafia has raised its usual shriek of Islam is in danger, and it won’t be the last, I’m sure. Although the present stink is pretty mild by earlier standards–the Indian Ripple Effect over Rushdie’s fatwa, for example–it has a nice and welcome twist to it.
How?
First of all, [...]
Gautam Siddharth has a pretty nice analysis of the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty.
Readers of this weblog might have by now, known my dislike for the Congress, more so the Dynasty and all that it has done to (ruin) the country, and stands for. Gautam’s take is quite different: he analyzes the Dynasty from different angles:
Association of [...]
Sten Lindstrom, the key Swedish investigator in the Bofors case recounts a damning story of vital aspects of his investigation. In the process, he asks pricky questions, and hints at embarrassing conclusions. While it was (is still) widely believed that the Nehru-Gandhi family, along with other powerful politicians are definitely guilty of accepting kickbacks, the [...]
Read this before proceeding further.
THE THOUGHT FOX
(by Ted Hughes)
I imagine this midnight moment?s forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock?s loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox?s nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a [...]
Anita Pratap, the hired troll Outlook columnist seems to be smitten by Priyanka Gandhi for her latest crap piece masquerading as analysis actually reads like an appeal for votes by a floundering politician.
Charisma is the most powerful component in politics. It breaks through all barriers, difficulties and logic. And Priyanka is the only one in [...]
After Sitaram Yechuri, it is the Resident Idiot’s turn; after all, he is one of the ilk. Thanks, JK, for the link.
His farm-fresh serving as usual, dispenses the standard verbiage: “communalism,” “Hindu chauvinistic,” “fascist,” and other goodies, but leads us to no conclusions. In this article, he is himself confused about his leanings: should he [...]
The Red whines again!
Because their credibility–as intellectuals, as leaders and policy makers–has taken such a beating in the recent years, they have taken to attack their favourite punching bag: the BJP and Hinduism. Their desperation is directly proportional to the number of days left for the fast-approaching elections. And the Indian secular media, ever [...]
Karnataka may prove to be the Congress’ Waterloo of the South, if pre-poll indicators are anything to go by. Karnataka has traditionally been a Congress fortress except for about 13 years, when the Janata Dal was in power: the late Ramakrishna Hegde happens to be a rare exception when he held Chief Ministership for two [...]
While the current hoopla on outsourcing tends more on rhetoric and less on analysis, there are some fresh, compelling insights that come our way now and then.
The author’s take is that the debate has grown out of proportion largely because of political interference; and political interference happens to be because of the onset of US [...]
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