In another entry, I had written about Rahul Gandhi quickly learning the ropes of Indian politics. His not-so-sudden act of denouncing Mulayam comes as no surprise; on the contrary, methinks it is a well-calculated move.
Now, his mother, the almost-become Prime Minister is following his footsteps. She says that UP hasn’t progressed under non-Congress governments. [...]
This essay by Lee Harris is almost 2 years old, but very, very thought-provoking. I found most answers to the question of whether the USA is the devil incarnate, is it really the Evil Capitalist Empire, etc. Lee Harris among other things, provides a well-reasoned critique of Marxism, and neo-Marxism (more appropriately, late 20th Century [...]
Gurumurthy does that: asks a few hard questions so as not to uncritically swallow everything the media dishes out.
What are the dispute-free aspects of the news reports so far? Ishrat was with three men in the car that was intercepted and two of them were Pakistanis. No dispute. Ishrat disappeared from the house on May [...]
Vinod Mehta, founder-editor of Outlook India starts off on a promising note about the not-so-recent “renunciation act” of Maino Sonia. He strives to maintain a semblance of neutrality in the article but the mask slips off quickly when he writes
In extremely conservative and regressive Hindu enclaves, widows did shave off their head and wore [...]
Welcome Outlook India, join the Slimes of India Club of the Elite! I was surprised (well, not so surprised in retrospection) to see this crap as the cover story for this week’s edition. Precious paper wasted on some goddamn survey about the best eating joints across the cities in India.
I mentioned I wasn’t so [...]
Michael Totten has a neat distinction between Liberals and Leftists; I give below just the main points:
A liberal (…) believes in reform. And a leftist supports revolution. Liberals (.) are the left-wing of the Establishment. Leftists are radicals who seek to overthrow the Establishment (either through violence or the ballot box) and replace it with [...]
Prem Shankar Jha, pseudosecularist, Congress loyalist and well known Hindu baiter seems to have had a sudden change of heart for reasons I cannot fathom. He writes about the First Cardinal Sin of the Congress! And lucidly at that.
Really, Jha shouldn’t have used Sin in the singular as is evident from his ennumeration:
1. Inducting tainted [...]
Jivha and Ravikiran are ripping each other apart… all right, lest the words in bold indicate a precusor to an ad hominem argument, let me haste to clarify thus: are ripping
Isn’t it amazing how quickly our political masters change colours? A stand that they had opposed when in Opposition, they support when in power and vice versa. It doesn’t help either that their staunch defenders in the media spit and run when confronted with reality.
Nutwar Singh, the Foreign Minister now wants to send Indian troops [...]
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In another entry, I had written about Rahul Gandhi quickly learning the ropes of Indian politics. His not-so-sudden act of denouncing Mulayam comes as no surprise; on the contrary, methinks it is a well-calculated move.
Now, his mother, the almost-become Prime Minister is following his footsteps. She says that UP hasn’t progressed under non-Congress governments. [...]