No better day than this for a few thoughts on the state of the nation and where we are headed. Sixty-one years after India became a Republic it’s on the brink of disarray. There is no government worth its name. Politicians, hoodlums and so-called Maoists are generally running crooked parallel governments everywhere in the country. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘India’
A Happy Republic, are we?
Posted: January 26, 2011 in CorruptionTags: Income Tax Department, India, Politicians, Prime Minister
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The (un)commonwealth gains
Posted: August 8, 2010 in SportsTags: Commonwealth Games, corruption scandals, India, Suresh Kalmadi
Sometime in the late 1980s the owner of the paper I worked with, said something that has stuck in my head ever since. His managers were showing him the new office we would soon be moving into. The building belonged to him and the interiors were being done up to accommodate a newspaper office. One [...]
A wound that festers….
Posted: February 23, 2010 in India, Kashmir, TerrorismTags: India, Indian Army, Kashmir, Pakistan, PoK
I know this issue is going to upset a few of my Kashmiri friends, but this is something I’ve felt strongly about. Point # 1: Why, every few years, do we undertake this entire charade about talks with Pakistan when we have no intention of handing over Kashmir or even talking about it? It seems [...]
