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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 ...
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 ...
Goes by the name of Denise Spellberg. Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy ...
So our Puppet Minister is off to attend yet another SAARC charade. For an international body that has such hoary aims as perpetuating mutual peace ...
Amardeep Singh, the kind professor who refused to engage me in debate writes about his strong support to forming SAALT [link thanks: Gaurav] The group has ...
Hardhitting and moving at the same time, this article demonstrates the all-round decrepitude of the people of India. I've pasted the whole article here. Parthasarathys do ...
The Nuclear non-deal is quickly making the UPA (or whatever is left of it) a nuclear family. The N-deal might well be the costliest blunder ...
In a superb article, Jakod De Roover rips apart the European Parliament's presumptuous self-righteousness, which has compelled them to "come out with a policy statement" ...
This mosque demolition strangely stirred extremely feeble protests--if you can call them that. Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a ...
The Indian Express reports A play inspired by a short story written in the 1960s, which prophesised the rise of religious extremists and bombing of mosques ...
This disgusting tripe cannot be called a "book review." It stops short at making an open personal attack on L.K. Advani. Now that I’ve already ...
Earlier this month, Priyanka Vadra Gandhi met Nalini to "come to terms with her father's death," etc. Noble sentiments. A heart-warming gesture. However, not everybody ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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" ...
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 ...
This is not the kind of thing to appear on my blog but I’m real angry at this headline: Tour suspension: India risk $ 2.3 mn ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The innocuous, almost ridiculous, demand for massive historical damages has smouldered into an international loss of face for Malaysia. Purely realpolitik terms, this was easily ...
The long-simmering discontent in the Indian community in Malaysia has erupted at last. Earlier on Sunday, Malaysia’s Indian community had staged its biggest-ever anti-government protest ...
Wanted: Vintage Military Action
Posted by Sandeep on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 10:21 PM. 1 Comment.
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 ...
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