Hamas wooing Urdu-speaking population in India, Pakistan
(Hindustan Times)
Two significant events, both directly emanating from Dictator Musharaff have led to this headline:
Musharaff’s sudden wooing of Israel (link via the Acorn)
And his consequent heartwarming speech to the American Jewish Congress (pdf of full text of the speech)
Francois Gautier has some thought-provoking answers.
Who are the real Dalits of India then?
When the British arrived on the subcontinent, they found, as many other invaders had discovered before them, that the biggest stumbling block to a strong grip on India were the Hindus and that they could not govern such a huge country without [...]
Notice how after the initial fury over the Mitrokhin revelations, things are back to normal? We’re a nation immune to unremarkable things like probity in public life, and even national security. Given the inertia that surrounds the Mitrokhin episode, this is what I’m forced to conclude: a mere miniscule cares about these things, and being [...]
It must have surely felt heady for the NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra to “boldly” implement the dance bar ban. However, the government’s own servants seem to go on a rape rampage.
Two hundred metres from the busiest airport in the country and in the vicinity of his police station, a head constable-apparently drunk-picked up [...]
Is the Maverick Philosopher. This entry was enough to put him on the list of my daily reads.
Well, my origins are working class, so it is not by inherited wealth. The secret is Theoreauvian simplicity and frugality. If one does precisely the opposite of what most Americans do, one can acquire a substantial net [...]
Fresh Stock of Supplies
Nitin says the Pakistani Jihadis are down but not out. My line: they’re not even down. Two Three attacks in just 8 days proves for one, their organizational and recuperational effectiveness and for another, their vulture-like “courage” in times of adversity.
Piercing the high security area, heavily-armed militants today shot dead the Jammu [...]
The Slimes has a few ideas.
Home ministry should not control appointments… [The Times Of India - Editorial]
Individual police officers and policemen have become adept at influencing politicians in power for their own benefit and sharing the spoils of office with their masters. The system works to the detriment of the law and order management in [...]
It is interesting to watch how this will turn.
Curfew was clamped in some parts of this communally-sensitive town today following clashes between two communities during Dussehra celebrations in which three persons were killed and 12 others injured.[..] Trouble arose yesterday when members of a particular community raised objections over celebrations of ‘Bharat Milap’, a [...]
Says a certain Taj Mohideen, Uri MLA. He was furious because a lowly worm of a bureaucrat dared to publicly state the following:
Two days after he told The Indian Express that he would not allow politicians to meddle with the quake relief effort and slammed J&K Congress minister Taj Mohideen for ‘‘undue interference’’ in the [...]
Now it is Varna’s turn to receive IIPM’s hate mail legal notice after Gaurav and Rashmi.
…some of the IIPM staff barged into the Jam office. In Rashmi’s words, they “did not offer any new or material facts, other than argument.” Then she got a legal notice from them.
(via India Uncut)
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