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35th attempt in less than a year. 132-plus infiltration attempts again, in less than a year. Says this Indian Express report. Less than a fortnight after Pakistan promised ...
This blog wishes you all a Happy, Prosperous and Safe Deepavali. Celebrate this festival of lights without crackers. Enough have exploded in four years.
I spent most of the last week working behind the scenes to foolproof my blog against its periodic bursts of becoming not reachable. Hence I ...
Meera beautifully weighs in with an open letter to Aravind Adiga. It proves one my pet-peeve theories that the biggest intellectual celebrity is also the ...
In the beginning of an essay on contemporary literary criticism, S.L. Bhyrappa dissects a Kannada short story, entitled Rotti (a dish made of rice flour) ...
My heart goes out to Vir Sanghvi. His article dripping with poor understanding, phony liberalism and pseudo concern for the health of the Indian society ...
Kanchan Gupta's superb piece on why it won't pay to give Iran the non-permanent security council seat. The foremost, nay only reason is the rabid ...
The media machine with the full backing of the secular establishment is furiously spitting in the hope of running away. The Outlook front page is ...
This post is more an addendum to Barbar Indian's brilliant analysis of the Slimes' shocking duplicity in covering the persistent violence at Kandhamal. For more ...
The original article was titled Playing with Fire in Karnataka. Comments welcome. Burden of the cross Sandeep B Evangelists have been using dirty ...
The Pioneer carried a slightly modified version of my op-ed yesterday. Here is the original version. Shivraj Patil’s open admission of having “Soniaji’s ...
I know the title of this post will get all kinds of visitors to this blog but everything has a price. Okay, so this is ...
The news of "braveheart" MC Sharma's tragic death is a few hours old now. Another story of a firehearted warrior dying on the call of ...
This attack is an advance Deepavali gift to the Indian people from the kind folks of the Indian Mujahideen. I can picture a top gun ...
In a rare show of courage, the Indian Express reports some eyewitnesses accounts to the foul murder of Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati. Reproducing in full in ...
As we alight each step in the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati, we progressively discover the true nature of Christianity in ...
Barely two days after the ghastly murder of an 80-year old Swami, Somini SpinGupta sets the wheels in motion. This NYT report is a study ...
What is more shocking than the news that the anti-conversion Swami Laxmananda Saraswati was murdered in cold blood? It is the fact that he was ...
This post is just one of the reasons why Nitin is a blogger par excellence. Let there be no mistake—Shivraj Patil ...
It has frequently been written that the incestuous world of Mumbai films forgets its differences and presents a united front when one of their own ...
Chop Kashmir off India so that I can party in Bombay seems to be Amit Varma's mantra. Varma's hypothetical equation of India=British Empire or whatever ...
What's common between the following names apart from the fact that they are all Indians settled abroad and have fancy degrees next to their names? Dr. ...
What's the difference between the "separatists" (who recently threatened to march into Muzzafarbad) and the Verbal Terrorist? Clearly, none. Especially after this earsplitting call. ...
It takes tremendous amounts of grotesque perversity to detect ulterior, sinister motives behind producing children's comics. That's perhaps why it takes only a Tehelka to ...
Somebody Rescue Yogi Sikand
Posted by Sandeep on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:21 PM. 15 Comments.
By admitting him into an insane asylum. Yeah, he's not (my mistake, confusing him for the original, Yoginder Yadav) the same statistical evil genius that ...
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