Archive for November, 2006

They’re Only Following Your Precedent, Comrades…

The Indian Communist freaks have predictably hollered against Saddam’s death sentence. Why, I put a Google search with these keywords: iraq communist party saddam. 90% of the search results show links to news items where Indian Commies denounce the verdict. Not a single item where the Iraqi Communist Party has done the same. Nor is it strange for [...]

Divisive Outlook

Outlook India, wrote Arun Shourie about 15 years ago, was the new pall-bearer of secularism. Ever since, it has quickly degenerated into a little more than a mouthpiece of the Congress party. Like the grand old party, it actively practises divide and rule with unparalleled zest. Here’s the latest instance of that. You can blame [...]

Imrana Goes to Arabia

MadMan’s blog brings this ghastly incident. A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married. It is Saudi Arabia, so it doesn’t surprise me. It wouldn’t surprise me if this kind of punishment [...]

A Farce, Implemented

This blog wishes all readers a belated happy Kannada Rajyotsava to its readers. This Rajyotsava is also special because it marks the first of many braindead schemes to ensure that it’s all downhill from here. Bengalooru: Using the platform, nearly a year after his predecessor N Dharam Singh said Bangalore would be renamed as Bengalooru, [...]