Link fowarded to me via email, read Karan Thapar nailing Arjun Singh. Karan Thapar: Do you personally also, as Minister of Human Resource Development , believe that reservations is the right and proper way to help the OBCs? Arjun Singh: Certainly, that is one of the most important ways to do it. Karan Thapar: The [...]
Ed: Bhartruhari seems to have spent a considerable portion of his life preparing a catalogue of fools. Here’s one more verse on that, perhaps the last. Varam Parvatadurgeshu Bhraantam Vanacaraih Saha| Na Moorkhajanasamparkah Surendrabhavaneshvapi|| How agreeable it is to wander with Wild brutes in dense forests and mountains than In the company of imbeciles although [...]
When he was newly elected, I had doubted if Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XVI was a fundamentalist. This news report only confirms it. Pope Benedict condemned Hindu nationalist attempts to ban religious conversions in India in a speech on Thursday reflecting growing tension among major faiths about the role and nature of missionary [...]
The 2004 Elections is certain to go down in the records as a watershed event. It heralded the return of Indian secularism as it was practised for about 50 years. It thankfully ended the 6 years of hate-filled rule by a fundamentalist coalition, which now languishes in deserved disarray. Among others, the current regime ensures [...]
This blogger has uncovered all the dirty machinations behind Arjun Singh’s continued insistence on imposing quotas in higher education. Arjun is speaking to a bunch of lowly party workers who’ve hitched on to him for career advancement. Arjun is at once, both sad and furious. Sad because his pet ideology (whatever it is) which had [...]
India Reacts has a superb editorial on Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to console the victims of the murdered Hindu families. Yesterday, visiting the families of the thirty-five slain Hindus in Doda and Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, the defence minister, Pranab Mukherjee, made a standard self-defeating statement. He disclosed that there were fifty-nine terrorist training camps [...]
The soldiers of Religion of Peace seem to have grand designs on India. Mumbai police foil Ellora terror bid Mumbai: The anti-terrorist squad of the Mumbai police seized a huge cache of explosives and weapons in raids conducted at various places in the Aurangabad district late on Tuesday night. The operation was conducted by a [...]
One need not look further than India to find conclusive evidence for Pavlov’s conditioning theory. Our colonial masters’ writ doth still rule. Here is the latest example: Govt set to give minority status to Jains Despite the Supreme Court’s direction against any addition to the list of “notified minorities,” the Centre is drawing plans to [...]
The Pioneer edit carries some scathing words on Sonia Gandhi’s ineptitude. Methinks she was doing fine listening to her inner circle of crooks and rarely dishing out some wisdom in public. More importantly, her silence also owed to the severe dent her image suffered due to the office for profit controversy (aside: I wonder if [...]
Reader Santosh made an observation on my review of Impressing the Whites and asked me if I’m open to debate. Since this is a topic lots have varied and often severely passionate opinions on, I thought it fit to reproduce his remark here. Your contributions are solicited and welcome. I hope your open to debate. [...]
