Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

Over the last year, I met many people who wanted to enter politics. Students, CEO’s, Social Activists and the rest. I have been giving some sort of general gyaan on the how’s and the what’s of politics – especially building core support groups and carrying them along.
But, over the same period I began realizing that what I am asking [...]

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HyperActiveX – came up with that title on a conversatin thread on FB.
And, this was in context of Mr.Advani – the leader of the BJP – who has decided to use the net to reach out to audiences that extensively use the net. (‘younger audiences’
In typical desi style, they have gone in for [...]

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The nationalization buzz – seems to be growing. i seem to be picking up the ‘n’ word everywhere i turn.
when banks or companies collapse due to mismanagement and tax payers money is used to bail them out, then the tax payer gets to own that part of the company. The Government essentially represents the [...]

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Yesterday, elections results in 5 states were announced. The Congress won three of them.
I wonder whether the disconnect between the media, the elite and the electorate is so much!
I truly respect the PM. I like this government – possibly because it is not in my face. But, i thought it was out of touch [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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… 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. [...]

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…. 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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…. 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 [...]

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