What differentiates the First Family of India from the following, similarly family-run political “parties?”
1. DMK-Karunanidhi
2. Shiv Sena-Bal Thackeray
3. JD(S)-Deve Gowda
The child of today is the soldier of tomorrow. I can’t get any profounder than that–but it’s entirely consistent with Barbar Indian’s predictions.
We’re talking about Gujarat.
Tehelka has kicked off the Congress partys’ election expedition in its typically hyperbolic style. While other secular papers and channels are trying their best to get the highest price find [...]
I strongly recommend Swapan Dasgupta’s brilliant essay in the Pioneer (Pioneer urgently needs a Web designer who knows his job) reproduced entirely here.
Although I abhor using “Right” in Indian political parlance, I’ve resigned myself to accept it until a better alternative is found.
This piece is one of the best analyses of the Indian “Right” I’ve read so [...]
The Hindu-hating clique that currently rules Tamil Nadu has spilt the stinking family milk on the streets.
Sibling rivalry in the ruling DMK got violent on Wednesday when two employees of Tamil newspaper Dinakaran were killed after a group of persons claiming to be supporters of DMK leader MK Azhagiri, elder son of Chief Minister K [...]
Fresh after my entry on the murder of “Martyr” Sohrabuddin, Ashok Malik uncovers some details of the martyr’s exemplary life. I’ve pasted only the relevant bits here.
There are, really, three compelling issues that emerge from the drama of the past week. First, just who was this Sohrabuddin Shaikh and why are we being subjected to [...]
Has been put into action overwhelmingly, by the media. After Gujarat 2002, this operation is the second illegitimate offsping of the copulation of Secular Politics and Secular Media.
I was laughing at the Times Now (you can apply this line to most secular News channels) news anchor’s furious facial contortions when I caught the first reports of Venal [...]
A barefooted painter lives in Cuffe Parade. He spends his time globe-hopping when he’s not obsessed with the anatomical details of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. In an interview to the Sunday Slimes some years ago, he defiantly proclaims that he neither “regrets” nor “apologizes” for his “art,” and he ignores attacks to his “art.” But [...]
A reader responds to my post on Kalakshetra. It appears as a comment on that post but in the interest of fairness, I’m posting it in full here.
The Web has unchained abuse, writes Dilip D’Souza in the People’s Paper (link via BarbarIndian). Ever the champion of civility and politeness in debate, the article methinks, is the culmination of his pent-up angst against people who
…fire off the vilest abuse, tell atrocious lies, spread the worst calumny, hide behind cloaks and daggers?
That is, people who disagree with [...]
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