Category: Politics
Right, Left and Centre
December 2, 2005There are few things as entertaining in life, as to see the right replay Mahabharat over and over again. Fatricidal warfare seems to be the name of the game. Raj and Uddhav deciding to part ways on power and its application. Uma…
Comparisons
November 8, 2005Natwar Singh being made a minister without a portfolio is akin to a pimp without a prostitute. Really sad. Have the spine to sack the man, or to back him. This sort of vascillating is really stupid.
Freedom of Information?
October 25, 2005Sid from Patang was down in Mumbai on Saturday. And SK and I met up with him for a few drinks at Maharaja. One of the very interesting conversations that we had (and we had many) was on the Right to Information…
Total Makeover
October 9, 2005A few weeks ago FE had a tongue in cheek write up on pet grooming – manicure, pedicure, shampoo and conditioning – for the animal in your life (no, not your partner or your spouse). Where animals can be ‘made over’ can…
Reservation on the basis of Religion- A bad idea
September 24, 2005A few months ago AP began the trend of reserving jobs for Muslims on the grounds that the community was ‘backward’. Now the RJD and the Congress in Bihar have made a similar promise. There is something fundamentally wrong, if in a…
Saving the Dangs
September 21, 2005I find the Sangh parivar’s focus on ‘converting’ Adivasis’ to Hindusim very odd. But, even odder is the Sangh parivar’s dedication to a term used by Persian invaders to describe a geographical entity – the people of the Indu river. Indoos. Technically…
The Spirit of 9/11
September 11, 2005George W Bush is hoping that the spirit of 9-11will help him get out of the mess that his administration’s ineptitude has landed him in. Imagine a government so incompetent, that it makes Vilasrao Deshmukh look good! I wonder whether invoking the…
Bharateeya BlogMela – a round up
September 9, 2005The Day has arrived. And after an extensive search through Indian blogdom – this week’s Bharateeya Blog Mela is finally in place. Thank you for all those who nominated. And as usual, this task would have been chaotic without Bloglines. Announcements JK…
Above the Law?
August 18, 2005What makes a certain set of people think that they are above the law? There was Mr.Advani and his bunch of karsewaks who thought that they could overrule the court’s verdict and take law into their own hands by bringing down the…