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Election 2004 Archive
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Vote Bank Politics as Rama’s Saviour
Posted on January 24, 2008 | 7 CommentsThe latest update on the Sethusamudram project depends on how you look at it. The Congress has all but decided to put the skids on the Sethusamudram project. Not because it has lost faith in the project, but because it is concerned about the political... -
Supercop’s Christian Truth
Posted on January 21, 2008 | 14 CommentsGetting stuck in Bangalore’s interminable traffic jams has its uses as I discovered over the weekend. I didn’t take my camera or I’d have attached a picture with this post. After the traffic signal just after the Vellara Junction is yet another signal. To my... -
10 Most Loathsome People in India: 2007
Posted on December 23, 2007 | 80 CommentsThis post is courtesy an inspiration I got from this superb list of (deservedly) loathsome public figures in the US (thanks, Atanu). I don’t have time or patience to do brief, dirty-writeups on fifty most loathsome public figures of India. I’m limiting that number to... -
Fair. Free. Fearless.
Posted on November 8, 2007 | 1 CommentIt’s cakewalk to recognize this man–he is in the news now. Actually, he has made news. And his paper proudly recounts how it resurrected itself after the (previous) government all but crushed it for stealthily uncovering the truth. A recurrent theme in that story is... -
Mortgaging National Interest at the Chinese Altar
Posted on November 3, 2007 | 7 CommentsPrakash Karat has finally admitted that China is the Fatherland. CPM general secretary Prakash Karat vowed to oppose a strategic alliance between India and the United States claiming that such a move was meant to “counter-balance†and “encircle†China. Tweet -
Passage to India
Posted on September 16, 2007 | 2 CommentsRunning a coalition government is thorny. With fragile vote tallies, allies need to be continually placated. In the Indian context, an irony that doesn’t escape our attention is parties with least numbers seem to garner the maximum benefits. The DMK with just 16 seats is... -
Karnataka’s Political Games
Posted on September 3, 2007 | 15 CommentsCan’t recall when I last wrote about Karnataka politics. Now is a good time because the portents appear promising. Tweet -
Another Bark
Posted on August 13, 2007 | 6 CommentsApart from for their somersaults, our Left comrades are known to bark. I can only hope this stunt statement from Prakash “24″ Karat is for real. A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dared the Left to withdraw support to the government over the Indo-US... -
All the President’s Men
Posted on July 21, 2007 | 51 CommentsThe inevitable has happened. President-elect Pratibha Patil described her win as the ‘victory of the principles’ which the people of the country uphold. We get what we deserve. Don’t complain. Tweet -
Pratibha Patil Talks to Dead People
Posted on July 2, 2007 | 5 CommentsSays Tavleen Singh in this amazing column. Read it fully. Good she discovered Rajiv Malhotra but sad she discovered him this late. And eminently surprising that Indian Express allowed this on its pages. The future president of India speaks to dead people. This is almost... -
Just Say No
Posted on June 27, 2007 | 66 CommentsOthers saying no: The Acorn | Offstumped | Barbar Indian | Atanu | Amit Varma | Tweet -
More Malleable Than Gold
Posted on June 25, 2007 | 7 CommentsPratibha Patil (huh? etc) might finally deck the President’s office. The Congress party’s propaganda papers media’s fervent efforts to pitch her as the next big something (whatever that/she is) lend loads of credibility to this. For a non-entity, Outlook has found her weighty enough to...