Celebrating the Congress party’s victory, Indian Expressstyle:
Clear the air | Red-faced, vindictive
The UPA’s trust vote victory has once again proved why it pays to be cynical. I firmly go by this diktat in watching Indian politics: never underestimate the Congress party’s potential for scurviness. It is an art the party has perfected for a few decades with singleminded dedication. It is hard to find any other [...]
Praveen Swami laments the “increasing marginalization” of Jammu & Kashmir’s syncretic traditions. The last time I read syncretic in print was in school. History lessons painted vivid pictures of an extended period Hindu-Muslim syncretism that spawned the Indian geography. Thankfully, Praveen Swami restricts said syncretism to Jammu & Kashmir. That [...]
The Nuclear non-deal is quickly making the UPA (or whatever is left of it) a nuclear family. The N-deal might well be the costliest blunder for the Congress party, specifically. It badly underestimated the Left, and despite Amar…er.. Mulayam Singh’s reassurances, July 22 will likely be its Fall Day.
First, two interesting reports:
Countdown UPA: 4 MPs [...]
Forget politics. Media watching promises to be a jolly activity. Rajdeep Sardesai’s fiery journalism leads the charade. CNN-IBN seems to change colours almost every other second. From sounding out the Left in a piece that is shockingly pro-capitalist one day to cozying up to Amar Singh yet another day, the media house is zigzagging big [...]
When I wrote about the run-up to the polls, I had no idea it’d be this close. This Pioneer edit puts it well and powerfully. The end to four-and-a-half years of non-governance seems close. A must-read.
As promised to Yossarin, I hereby add, clarify, and (hope to) correct some items in Yossarin’s elucidation of Dharma. I’ve adopted his question-answer format because it offers a nice readymade template.
With highly-probable portends of an early election visible on the horizon, I’ve created a new category called Elections 2009.
Beginning with this post, I plan to record–very irregularly–a sort of a run-up of events, news, and other gossip–I’ll even create quizzes–leading up to the actual elections. It promises to be an interesting retrospect.
Via the Acorn, who in this excellent short-shrift to cricket-commentator-turned-pseudo Historian, Ramachandra Guha, adequately delivers the treatment the piece deserves. From the paragraph Nitin quotes,
We need to repair, one by one, the institutions that have safeguarded our unity amidst diversity…
I challenge Mr. Guha to name exactly one institution that has done all these.
The hullaballoo over the Amarnath land controversy amuses me. I fail to understand the wail of the idiots who still think Kashmir is part of India. They have forgotten that Kashmir is governed by the Shariat law. Hindus in Kashmir are zimmis; only, they have the luxury of not paying the jaziya tax–at least, not [...]
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