Posted by gargi on 06 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: India, Politics, Society, propaganda
Today is the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition…… it is also the anniversary of a particularly unpleasant personal failure, that was ignited by the demolition….
I was a student in London when the Mosque came down with a whole bunch of Hindutvadi’s baying for blood. Do you remember Sadhvi Rithambra screeching “ek aur dakha [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Caste
Narendra Modi has done it again…….This is his latest gem:
In a recent book written by him and published by the state information department Modi says, “Scavenging must have been a spiritual experience for the Valmiki caste”.
The book titled Karmayog is yet to hit the stands.
In the book, he goes on to say, “At some point [...]
Posted by gargi on 25 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: India, Politics, Society
It is not often that one gets the chance to praise the Central Government. This is one of the rare times, and the reason is their conduct on the Tasleema Nasreen issue. This is the Government position :
“The right to grant permission to stay in India is a Central government prerogative that has been given [...]
Posted by gargi on 12 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: India, Politics
George Fernandes, ‘honourable’ minister for Defence in the NDA administration claims that he was prevented from investigating Bofors by the then PM, Atal Behari Vajpayee. Now he tells us that it was a joke
He did ask me not to rake up the issue… But it was all said in a very light-hearted manner. And you [...]
Posted by gargi on 13 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media, TV
There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of Rahul Mahajan. For someone who indulged in an orgy of excesses, with his father’s urn lying in the next room, and who ended up in hospital OD’ing on some narcotic or the other, and in whose party [...]
Posted by gargi on 15 May 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., Media
Assume that there are two brothers in the West (UK or US) called Peter & Paul Matthews. Peter is a Politician & Paul is a builder. One bright and chirpy Sunday morning in suberbia - Paul shoots Peter dead. In three days time there would be four movies announced
A channel like Hallmark would run a [...]
Posted by gargi on 07 May 2006 | Tagged as: India, Politics
I would be lying if I said that i admired or respected Pramod Mahajan’s Politics. He represented the worst possible amalgamation of the rabid right mixed with corporate smarminess.
But, my heart goes out to a family that has to cope with one member murdering another.
There is an even greater power vacuum,now, in the BJP - [...]
Posted by gargi on 01 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: India, Politics
I have been meaning to write about this ever since i saw the news items - but have generally given way to inertia Vajpayee compares himself to Parasuram and Advani & Mahajan as Ram and Lakshman. But, he probably got his sages mixed up. He probably meant (or should have meant Vishwamitra). [...]
Posted by gargi on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: India, Politics
… goes to L.K.Advani - for stating that the BJP was going through a bad patch. Fatricidal warfare that would embarass the Congress (not to mention the Kauravas and Pandavas), Half a dozen MP’s caught on tape taking bribes, a sex scandal, the inability to act as either a party or an [...]
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