Monthly Archives: January 2008

Media Irresponsibility

The Indian media seems to be zealous in its race towards self-destruction. The Gujarat elections hammered home this fact like no other event in recent memory. Now this.
It is all over for India’s first missile development programme launched in 1983 under APJ Abdul Kalam.
The programme has been plagued by cost and time over [...]

Cricket and Molestation

We must hand it to Dilip D’Souza. It takes only a particular genius of perversion to come up with this kind of comparison. Ordinary mortals lack this talent (pasted the full post here).

Of two recent incidents — women molested in Juhu on New Year’s Day, Sydney Test mess — which one stimulated more press coverage? [...]

If We have an Iota of Self-Respect…

Hindutva and Militant Islam

This is where I wind up my previous post on Hindutva, which I had left unfinished. I pointed to a fundamental error in understanding Hindutva by comparing it to "militant Islam."

Continuing the Debate

It is now my turn to add fuel to the fire pitch in my bits to the debate that began with Nitin coining a new word: anti-Hindutva. The debate in itself is another proof of how public discourse has been perverted in India. It is impossible to offer any argument in defence of the Hindu [...]

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