Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
- Aug 09158 Comments
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. – Margaret Atwood
There was a report a few days back by some USCIRF – which calls itself US Commission on International Religious Freedom! It said that it had put India on a watch list for not adequately protecting [...] - May 09172 Comments
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
More so in the Indian context as we saw in the previous parliaments. A left block with 10% of the total seats used to dictate the government’s economic and foreign policies. Blocks [...] - Dec 08193 Comments
“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: ‘No man should have so much.’ The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: ‘All men should have so much.’”
Both India and China want to become great powers, but there ends the [...] - Dec 088No Comments
I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying-it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. – Molly Ivins
Soon after the recent mumbai terror attacks in India, immediately after the lone terrorist in the attacking group, Ajmal Amir Kasab was captured by the Indian authorities on the spot of the carnage, it was revealed [...] - Dec 0812 Comments
Pakistan has to act, else the world will react.
Every time whenever there was a terror attack on India, and when India said that groups from Pakistan were involved in it, Pakistan used to ask for evidence. And for every evidence India gave, it used to say, this is not enough! But not this time!!
The [...] - Nov 0830No Comments
After 9/11 there have been no terror attacks in the US.
After Iraq, India has had the largest number of terrorist attacks in the world in 2008! India is literally at war – its civilians being killed at will by terrorist groups based out of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Agartala, Imphal, Assam and [...] - Oct 085No Comments
Now that the Indo-US nuclear deal has been approved by the US establishment and will be signed soon by both the countries, let us look back a bit at NSG, the group of nuclear supplier nations which recently approved the supply of nuclear materials to India for civilian use.
How many of us are aware of [...] - Aug 08152 Comments
Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee, the famous British Historian said in the 20th century, At the close of this century, the world would be dominated by the West, but that in the 21st century India will conquer her conquerors. –
Well, the arrival of India in the 21st century is not something that is happening for [...] - Jul 0822No Comments
A set of few simple questions which the citizens of India would like our prime minister and the UPA to answer.
Its all about the Indo-US nuclear deal, which the government is trying to project to the masses as if it is a one stop solution to all our energy and strategic needs and as if [...] - Jun 0828No Comments
Rarely comes a time when I support the Left front in India. In the context of the Indo-US nuclear deal , Left is Right is what I believe. Left is opposing the deal since it doesn’t wants a strategic tie up with US which goes against its communist interests, and I am opposing the deal [...]
- May 086No Comments
Once upon a time in a village people used to travel mostly by bullock carts. There was only one bus service from the village to the nearby town every day. Most of the people could only afford traveling by bullock cart and not by bus. Over a period of time the poor villagers worked hard, [...]
- Apr 0814No Comments
India is the only country in the world where people would love to be called backward, and the numbers are exponentially increasing.
India is the only country in the world which since its independence has become increasingly backward, with more and more castes being added to the backward list. Economic boom and increasing backwardness go hand [...] - Feb 0821No Comments
“The result (of outsourcing) is more American jobs, higher wages and a faster growing economy overall… Global sourcing continues to be a net positive for American workers and the US economy” – so said Harris N. Miller, president of Information Technology Association of America in 2005.
Look at the contradiction now. Here is what Mr. Barack [...] - Dec 07208 Comments
The RTI (Right to Information Act) enables the Indian citizens to query the government about ANY information they want excluding the personal information of citizens and information related to security matters and defense.
It is a well known fact that the dynastic politics of Nehru family has ensured that on the birth day and death anniversary [...] - Dec 071516 Comments
The above newspaper clipping, I saw it in the online edition of the Gujarati newspaper Sandesh (page 15), dated Yesterday Dec 14 2007! Look at the advertisement there on the bottom right corner.
Wondering who the person is? Well, he is the dreaded Pakistani terrorist, Masood Azhar, the leader of the terrorist group Jaish e Mohammed.
Wondering [...] - Dec 07136 Comments
The former prime minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had once said
We can choose our friends, but not our neighbors
Look at the current state of the four big neighbors of India where the rights of the people are suppressed by their own governments.
Pakistan – is under military rule
Bangladesh – is under military rule
China – [...] - Oct 07125 Comments
CNN-IBN recently came up with an in-depth analysis report by looking at the Sethusamudram controversy, not just in terms of its religions nature, but also in terms of security risks, the ecological disaster, loss of livelihood for the local people, etc that would be caused by this project.
The most important thing that has to be [...] - Sep 07206 Comments
Now the political blame game has started regarding the controversial Sethusamudram project where the current Congress led UPA government is planning to build a canal called Sethusamudram by destroying the ancient Rama Sethu.
One of the blog readers provided this news item according to which, the Congress is blaming the BJP of hypocrisy saying, it was [...] - Sep 071917 Comments
Karunanidhi, who just few days back declared that Ram is a myth , is a classic example of a politician who makes extensive use of the fact that Public memory is short lived , to his greatest advantage.
This same chief minister of Tamilnadu Mr Karunanidhi, who today wants the Ram Sethu to be [...] - Sep 071432 Comments
Can’t these political parties do developmental work without hurting the religious sentiments of the people of this country? Be it the religious minorities or the majorities, the political parties of India have only used them as vote banks in this country.
While the BJP and other ideological allies of it have used the majority sentiments to [...]
