Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

My new hero is Baichung Bhutia and I don't even follow football.
To stand up for what you believe in, and state that belief in a non violent and dignified  manner is the basis on which India fought for her Independence. To see someone in today's day and age doing that warms the cockles of my [...]

This from the RSS - The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh  not Really Simple Syndication
According to RSS, everybody has a right to pray for his deity in his style. But every Indian should accept that Ganga is a holy river and Ramayan and Mahabharata are the holy books of India.

Reminds me of the time (a lifetime [...]

… says the Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee , while speaking to journalists

"I am not saying that media does not give space to our news. But they should give more news. Parliament forms laws to govern the state, they think about the future of India,"

 But, within Parliament it is a different matter. [...]

…. says Uddhav Thackeray - to counter his more charismatic cousin, undoing the last year of the Shiv Sena trying to reach out to ‘other’ communities.
“Outsiders coming to Mumbai hoping to work in the airport project would be packed off and sent back in a cargo plane,”
cargo planes are traditionally used to transport body [...]

In the last week, a simmering problem just boiled over. There has been violence against the “North Indians”. And, I am surprised that people are surprised. I am appalled. I am horrified. But, I am not surprised. Infact I expected it to happen rather earlier.
In the last 13 years that I have been back [...]

…. is a Fundamental Right as per the Constitution of India. But, this is a criminal….
Right wing religious outfit called Hindu Samrajya Sena ransacked NDTV’s office in Ahmedabad to protest against the news channels running a SMS poll on M F Husain as a contender of Bharat Ratna.
A group of 15-20 people destroyed the [...]

Elections in India make for great quotes. And, it is always fun to see what they said last time and contrast it what they are saying now!
Narendra Modi on Sonia Gandhi, now :
“I have nothing personal against Sonia, our differences are ideological,”
Given that Mr.Modi had earlier said this about Mrs. Gandhi :
Sonia Gandhi [...]

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 [...]

This from CNN-IBN:
Many refugees of Nandigram have confirmed that they had been brutally raped. Fear looms large in her eyes, the fear of CPI-M cadres. Forty-year-old Akreja Biwi doesn’t want to go back home anymore.
Last Sunday, as the CPI-M recaptured Nandigram, nearly 100 of the party cadres allegedly looted her house, raped her and her [...]

Project Censored has a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007. This is obviously in the USA. And here censorship does not necessarily mean reports or reportage that the Government bans in a ham handed manner. Oh, those will get reported no.  It is rather, a compbination of multiple stake holders who ensure [...]