Let me pick up from where BarbarIndian’s superbly acid post left off. He points to this Slimes of India piece that dwells on the Supreme Dignity that a Burqa confers on women. Extracts from that piece follow.
Many Indian Muslim women in cities and small towns can barely veil their disgust over French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s [...]
I return to this after three months. The following takes place in Professor Shastri’s house. The occasion: match-making between Aruna, Shastri’s daughter and Nazir, Lakshmi’s (alias Raziya) son.
The prospective groom and bride met each other at the Professor’s home. And immediately agreed to marry. The prospective bride had no preconditions for her assent. She readily [...]
The latest evidence.
The Bandra police has filed a case against Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan for allegedly making comments about Prophet Mohammad but the actor said it is a writing error and not a thought or view that he believes in.
“We have registered an FIR against Shah Rukh Khan after we received an application from [...]
This appeared in the Pioneer on Thursday (18 June 2009). Comments and criticism welcome as always.
Congress’s stealth Stalinism
Sandeep B
Government’s recent proposal to impose censorship on online news portals, Websites and blogs smacks of fear and insecurity similar. It reminds us of the dark days of the Emergency
Something nasty went unheard, buried beneath the cacophony celebrating [...]
Sudheendra Kulkarni’s essay on the BJP’s dismal electoral performance has been met with much discussion, debate and in several cases, outright fury. It’s a few days old and I largely chose to ignore it. On second thoughts, it deserves a little more probing if only to showcase it as a shining roadsign of the things [...]
India-Pakistan bhai-bhai is one of the themes close to the secularists’ heart. They don’t even need an excuse to trumpet this theme into our collective ears. And so here’s Turdesai talking about the joys of fatherhood in Pakistan at a cricket match, and discussing momentous matters over state-sponsored mega food orgies, and such other indulgences.
In [...]
The latest proof of how Aurangzeb’s magnificient legacy is perpetuated (link thanks Barbar Indian) with eager zest by the Taliban. Think of it, the name Taliban is rather appropriate especially when it is spoken in the same breath as Aurangzeb.
In May, dozens of Sikhs living in the Orakzai agency were forced to move out after [...]
