Posts Tagged ‘World’

It has been an interesting year - and we all know what the Chinese say about interesting times.
In Indian Politics - citizens sent back another coaltion. The secular, middle of the road, sometimes muddled Cogress is in power, with a mish mash of contradictory allies.Sonia Gandhi played the best game of political chess. Her Queen [...]

Yasser Arafat died today. I hope that he finds the peace that so eluded him in life.
He, more than anyone else, ensured that the Palestinians were not forgotten. They didn’t become another statistic in a desire by the West to assuage their collective guilt over the Holoucast .
However, I wish that he had the [...]

I was shooting for Power Trip. Our guests that day were Kumara Mangalam Birla and Praful Patel. IT was the 4th of November. and the US election results were out.
Bush won, as expected. There is nothing quite like using “fear as the key” as a tactic for winning elections.
I remember being in school when Rajiv [...]

A couple of weeks ago I read an article, think that it was by Swaminathan Anklasaria Aiyer, called Kush and Berry, and looked at what little difference there was between the two.
Today, while reading the Guardian online, the headline “Kush and Berry” peeked out of the recesses of my memory. The opening line that [...]

If a soldier refuses to obey orders, is it Mutiny or an act of conscience? One of the boards’ I am on is currently polarised on the topic. The topic, of course, is a report that states that an American Platoon in Iraq refused to follow orders. Half the board wants to see the platoon [...]

Saudi Arabia is finally having municipal level elections early next year, ushering in the first whiff of Democracy. In this too there is a caveat. Women cannot vote. The excuses offered are ridiculous. Lack of female staff and photo identity can both be overcome if the Government has the desire to do so.
We are in [...]

…. the answers my friend is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowin’ in the wind
sang, Joan Baez - , sometime last century. About another war based on another lie. Another people who were decimated at the altar of Democracy.
Today’s news was that there were no WMD’s in Iraq after all. That is the [...]

The Guardian today had a selection of letters from Iraq excerpted from Michael Moore’s new book. The letters are terribly heart rending.
… I was so scared. Didn’t know what to think. Seeing dead bodies for the first time. People blown in half. Little kids with no legs. It was overwhelming, the sights, sounds, fear. I [...]

…is a commone phrase you will find in blogdom, in reference to the Hostage Tragedy in Russia. The term refers to the mother who chose between taking her son to freedom and her daughter to freedom.
My father commented this morning, even in Russia the life of the son is more important than that of the [...]

I saw the Swiftboat Veterans Anti - Kerry ad on the net today. Quite an impressive piece of communication. It says just one thing, and keeps hammering that one thing over and over again.
The one line communication of the campaign is that John Kerry is not fit to be the President of the United States.Wonderful [...]