I didn’t want to blog the Bhagalpur brutality: Indian cops are brutal sadists, worse things happen within the police darkrooms so…. yawwwwn.
But as it always, unceasingly, invariably, and unfailingly happens in India, a minor incident like this suddenly becomes a Muslim…err….Majority vs Minority issue. The stirrings have already begun:
The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) [...]
So, China says that
…China and India do not not pose a threat to each other, in comments that assume significance in the backdrop of speculation that Beijing is unhappy with the growing Indo-US strategic relationship.
And we are supposed to accept that at its par value. At least, according to the Indian Express, which subtly betrays [...]
I hate these irritants…like unwanted commercial breaks that disturb life’s endless party. Who wants to know how many infidels innocent citizens were killed? We have so many left to slaughter. Thankfully, we have a government that increasingly, is acting like a Facilitator.
Let me know when the din dies down.
I’m watching FTV.
Do not disturb.
My circle of friends is as large and varied as the interests, hobbies and passions of each person in that circle. There’s no one, absolutely no one there who hasn’t heard of or read the classic Autobiography of a Yogi.
Some self-proclaimed Shiv Sainiks attack the Bombay office of Outlook. That expectedly transforms into an all-out attack on the freedom of press.
Some goons calling themselves Shiv Saina "activists" forcibly entered the Outlook office on the sixth floor of Raheja Chambers in Nariman Point at around 3 PM today, asked for the "editor" and proceeded [...]
Apart from for their somersaults, our Left comrades are known to bark. I can only hope this stunt statement from Prakash “24″ Karat is for real.
A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dared the Left to withdraw support to the government over the Indo-US nuclear deal, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat hit back, saying the [...]
Shashi Tharoor is a delightful novelist. I loved his Riot not just for its unique experiment in structure and form but for the author’s skillful treatment of a delicate subject.
I wish Tharoor displays a bit of that in his columns and sundry articles. Sadly, he doesn’t. Blame it on his St. Stephen’s pedigree. I suspect [...]
Our cops seem to be eager to perfectly fit the mould that Bollywood/Indian cinema has set for them.
The Hyderabad police have registered a case against controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was recently attacked by workers of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) in Hyderabad, for allegedly creating ill-feeling among communities.
The writer has been booked under IPC [...]
Claude Arpi, one of the finest observers of strategy, defence and policy affairs shows how deadly the business-pleasure mixture is. Reproduced from the Pioneer in full.
Read and weep. How a man whom a lot of liberals consider the “architect of modern India” allowed the wrong part of his anatomy to interfere in strategic decision-making.
Compromising India
Claude Arpi
This month India will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its independence. A [...]
While the whole establishment and media is busy making a hero out of Haneef, the gentlemanly Finance Minister sneaks this announcement.
The government asked public sector banks to raise lending to minority communities, including Muslims, Christians and Sikhs, to 15 per cent of total priority sector advances over the next three years.
“The lending to minority [...]
