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Indian Politics Archive
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Mourning a Terrorist’s Death
Posted on November 12, 2004 | 12 CommentsWith the Congress-led UPA government running the show, it is only to be expected that they will steadfastly support all kinds of terrorists, dead or alive. Especially so, when a Nobel-recipient terrorist is dead. With the world’s oldest terrorist, Yaseer Arafat now confirmed “officially dead,”... -
It takes more than an Alliance…
Posted on November 10, 2004 | 1 CommentLalu’s political enemies have coined a new epithet for him: Modern Manuvadi. For the uninitiated, Manu was the first man or the first law-giver in ancient India. Much of Indian moral and ethical codes, strictures, and the “caste system” were devised by Manu. Manuvadi is... -
A Veiled Editorial
Posted on November 2, 2004 | No CommentsGiven the Left’s considerable clout in the current government, it is but natural for a paper whose editor is a staunch Communist, to indulge in certain veiled exultation cloaked in respectable language. So, according to this piece, the Left is now torn between ideological compulsions... -
Of Art Films
Posted on October 29, 2004 | 11 CommentsHe has been honoured with several awards, kudos, and other praises. For good reason. Personally, I do not consider Naseeruddin Shah to be an actor par excellence, at least going by all the media hype that surrounds him. I guess the media has some inexplicable... -
Defeat = Obscurity?
Posted on October 28, 2004 | No CommentsIt is both curious and ironical how a single defeat can overturn the fortunes of a person or organization. When things seem to be going the way the current victor wants, there seems little chance of “cruel fate” intervening. The same can be said of... -
Not Quite Shocking
Posted on October 28, 2004 | No CommentsReaders familiar with this weblog must suffer from nausea thanks to the countless digs I’ve taken at the pervasive corruption that affects India. The story is the same this time around. Another year, another report, yet nothing happens. The latest report however, says that one... -
The Old Days are Back!
Posted on October 14, 2004 | 3 CommentsWith the Congress-led UPA in power, this should come as no surprise to anybody. Banning books, banning films, trying to suppress truth… the good ol’ days are back but not with the same ruthlessness, thank God for small mercies. The realities are certainly different today... -
I guess this Explains our Politics & Babudom
Posted on October 5, 2004 | 1 CommentAnybody who has seen the Vidhana Soudha cannot possibly miss the grossly vulgar line that shouts at you: GOVERNMENT’S WORK IS GOD’S WORK. Yes, all in caps, using the boldest of bold Type. This line, simple as it looks, contains an enormous, almost sinister, implication.... -
What was more Harmful?
Posted on September 30, 2004 | 4 CommentsRavi is kind enough to devote his thoughts to a book review I had posted recently; the book, which proves that Nehru was a die-hard communist. Ravi’s entry contains a neat distinction between the definitions Socialism and Communism as was understood fifty or eighty years... -
I want my Savarkar: II
Posted on September 16, 2004 | 20 CommentsI’d written about the Savarkar issue last week, trying to point out the futility of straining to appropriate him and/or indulging in meaningless mudslinging, although I should admit that I’m attempting to look at the positive aspects of mudslinging. In the same entry, I had... -
Another Impression of Servility
Posted on September 9, 2004 | 4 CommentsI had written about the house-nigger, Anita Pratap, earlier in my blog. She the Ardent Upholder of the Torch of Pseudo Secularism stoops again! She sees a battle, nay a Mahabharata, a Grand Battle of Secularism versus Hindutva. Before I examine her trash arguments, I’m... -
I want my Savarkar
Posted on September 6, 2004 | 4 CommentsI want my Savarkar, my Gandhi, my Patel, my Bhagat Singh, my Subash Bose…. how many can you count? Mani Shankar Aiyar, an ardent Sonia-pleaser Congress sycophant seems to love to invite trouble at his doorstep. Given his record of sycophancy, we shouldn’t be surprised...