January 31, 2006 – 6:48 pm
Preface
I recall reading the Preface to Arun Shourie’s The Only Fatherland where he recounts a standard Communist technique. I’ve written about it here in my review of the book.
The book opens with Shourie recounting his experience of how he was warmly received by the CPI(M) of Kerala. They apparently wanted to translate a book he [...]
January 31, 2006 – 12:33 pm
Gautam Sen’s scathing piece in the Pioneer, reproduced in full because Pioneer’s links don’t work the next day. Dire and unnerving as the piece is, it is another wake up call, one among the thousands that we continue to ignore at our peril.
India’s long defining moment
Remember the Nineties as the decade that signalled the end [...]
January 30, 2006 – 12:04 pm
Is Patriotism.
It has become fashionable to deride Patriotism as full of noise but hollow, and meaningless. I direct all such people to this heart-wrenching account.
Great Bong in recounting a personal history has captured in this one entry what tomes on Indian freedom struggle have failed to: the idea of patriotism. The argument [...]
January 25, 2006 – 12:05 pm
Two days ago, I wrote about singing hymns to terrorists. Close on its heels comes this unbelievably cringy piece.
As India embarks on a long-term engagement with the Saudi Kingdom, its bureaucracy must cultivate a healthy respect for the sophistication of the Saudi elite.
Indeed.
January 23, 2006 – 7:11 pm
The Indian Express shows the way.
As they discuss the growing convergence of their national interests, the Prime Minister and the King are expected to lay the foundations for long-term security cooperation between India and Saudi Arabia. The elements of such cooperation—tackling transnational crime, exchange of terrorism-related intelligence, promoting mutual energy security, and initiating defence contacts—came [...]
January 20, 2006 – 11:05 am
The CPI’s party organ is ironically titled People’s Democracy. Their several rampage-sprees are but ostentatious expressions of their love for democracy. Like this threat:
Unable to take the Election Commission Observers to task for their “partisan approach” in weeding out fake voters in West Bengal, a miffed CPI(M) leadership has turned its ire on the Congress [...]
January 19, 2006 – 3:23 pm
Puja or worship is one among the hundreds of other Hindu traditions that has continued unbroken for thousands of years. Puja takes different forms, and is practised differently by different castes. There no one “right” way to offer it although tradition offers a broad set of guidelines to perform it. Together, this constitutes the Shodashopacaara [...]
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January 19, 2006 – 2:36 pm
Says the Iranian ambassador.
Iran is looking forward to completing the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline deal as scheduled, despite moves by some quarters to scuttle the project, according to diplomats from Tehran.
Speaking to newspersons on Wednesday, Mehdi Mohtashami, the Iranian ambassador to Greece, denied rumours that the deal may be cancelled.
According to INEP agency, he said: “There [...]
January 18, 2006 – 5:01 pm
A few weeks ago, a call centre employee was raped and murdered. The usual suspects hollered, and it was back to business as usual.
For everyone except Bangalore’s Sherlock Holmeseque police.
January 17, 2006 – 7:48 pm
For refusing the Sahitya Akademi award.
Novelist Arundhati Roy has turned down a national award from India’s academy of letters because she opposes the government’s policies, the Press Trust of India reported.
The novelist sent the institution a one-page fax saying she did not want to accept a prize from a body linked to the government, an [...]
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The Left’s Ayurvedic Ambush
Preface
I recall reading the Preface to Arun Shourie’s The Only Fatherland where he recounts a standard Communist technique. I’ve written about it here in my review of the book.
The book opens with Shourie recounting his experience of how he was warmly received by the CPI(M) of Kerala. They apparently wanted to translate a book he [...]