It’s raining Tibetan protests worldwide. I have equal love for China and Pakistan. But what’s wrong with the Verbal Terrorist?
NDA leader George Fernandes and author Arundhati Roy will join hundreds of Tibetans in a torch relay parallel to the Olympic flame run in the Capital on Thursday.
The Verbal Terrorist has featured countless times on this [...]
Tibet stands tall in the list of Nehru’s ugly legacies. With our Comrades calling the shots now, is this news any surprise?
Indian police have arrested about 100 Tibetan exiles who set out, earlier this week, on a protest march from India to their homeland. ….the march is part of a global campaign mounted by [...]
Two news items. Similar theme, different content. Starkly different reactions.
Item 1:
Over 100 Hindus staged a noisy mock-slaughter of a cow outside the British parliament to highlight legal loopholes that they say allowed authorities to euthanise a temple cow last year.
The protestors staged the mock-slaughter on Wednesday as Hindus in India’s holy town of [...]
I didn’t know Mohandas Gandhi had a grandson named Arun Gandhi until I read this.
Now, intemperate remarks about Israel and Jews being "the biggest players" in a global culture of violence have gotten Gandhi removed as president of the peace center he launched in 1991.
"My intention was to generate a healthy discussion on the proliferation [...]
Like Atanu, I’m fond of Christopher Hitchens’ writings for simple reasons: clarity, lucidity, and a care-a-damn attitude. So here’s a delightful piece tantalizingly titled Victoria’s Secret. He uncovers more dirt on the British empire through a book review and shows how ultimately, the proud and efficient Brits were essentially insecure males.
. And in [...]
So Benazir Bhutto is dead. A step lower in Pakistan’s descent into anarchy. The biggest beneficiary of her gruesome killing is the media, which will have a prolonged orgasm lasting several days.
Just yesterday I was watching her soul-stirring speeches where she promised electricity, and roads, guaranteed employment–Inshah Allah hum bijili denge, etc–and promised to [...]
The New York Slimes beats the familiar hollow drum using one-sided reporting and generalizations as sticks.
Hindu extremists ransacked and burned eight rural churches in eastern India, marring Christmas celebrations in a corner of the country with a history of violence against Christians, officials said Wednesday. [...] But throughout India’s history, both communities have faced repeated [...]
Welcome a new oxymoron to the English language, courtesy a Holy Englishman: caring colonialism. Like burning ice and free slave.
Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who officially leads nearly 80 million Anglicans worldwide, told a British Muslim lifestyle magazine that the British experiment in India was an example of caring colonialism.
The word choice of [...]
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The Last Hindu Kingdom Bites the Dust
This shows how India gifted Nepal to China. While most in the mainstream media gloat about the victory of democracy, free and fair elections, etc nobody wants to see behind the curtain.
India gifts Nepal to China
Balbir K Punj
The UPA Government can now flaunt one more ‘achievement’ along with inflation, deceleration in rate of growth and [...]