“LOVE PAKISTAN”. The first message that I got on the New Year morning, courtesy my favorite newspaper, the Times of India. I must admit, I was shocked for a few moments. Later, I learned that lakhs of people across India shared a similar reaction on reading the message. The message turned out be a part of an elaborate campaign, optimistically called “Aman ki Asha”, which translates into something like “Hope for Lasting Peace”.
Aman ki Asha - The First Step
Over the next few weeks, it has been very instructive to follow the passage of this initiative undertaken by the Times of India (TOI). I was particularly intrigued...
“Youth in politics” has been frequently touted as the perfect pill to cure all the ills that plague the Indian political system. A number of debates, especially if they involve the ‘younger’ and ‘urbanized’ crowd, will frequently propose...
The Government’s annual budget is always a much awaited report for the common man, the entrepreneurs andthe politicians alike. Household budget, industrial productivity, business, even the future of the political parties are affected by the budget....
Jyoti Basu, the doyen of Indian politics has passed away.
Jyoti Basu represents a generation of leaders from right and left, who got into politics, not for the desire of power, but powered by an idealism to achieve something for their fellow human beings.
Jyoti...
The Telangana agitation and its aftermath has hogged the limelight now.
Though this agitation has been going on for several decades now, rearing its head up often, this is the time after 1969 that it has come to the full focus of the nation’s...
“How long you can keep this unhappy nation together”, asked one of my friends during a passionate discussion over the recent events of Telangana. As I argued that we are a mature democracy and there was little threat to India’s unity, he snapped...
It would be a cliche to say that climate control and global warming are the buzzwords in today’s awakening world! And the recently held summit at Copenhagen meant these were all over the newspapers. The Copenhagen summit was looked at with lot...
The kidnapped police officer, Francis Induwar, from the special branch was found dead in Ranchi, along Jamshedpur-Ranchi highway. It is alleged that he was beheaded by Naxalite extremists. And if this turns out to be authentic information then certainly...
Mumbai is a cosmopolitan city and everybody has a right to stay there, be a part of its culture and do what they feel like doing. Mumbai is not only for Maharashtrians but for everybody who wants to be the part of hip hop Mumbai culture. However, there...
Stability is required for growth and development of any nation. A nation which is not stable always shows negative growth trends, and this creates negative economy. But, what is important among all other things is – how to achieve stability in a multi-social,...
I got a job at “The Leading Daily” with hopes that I would be interviewing the likes of J.K. Rowling or Emma Watson or Aishwarya Rai, but I get dumb-ass (I really don’t use that word! Except in my thoughts!) Praj Thappadein, a racist leader of...
The Election Pressure
The Nobel Peace Prize for Obama this week was a surprising one, ofcourse to everyone.
The question that was raised was
1. Is Nobel Peace Prize an award for accomplishment..?
2. Is Nobel Peace Prize an award for encouragement..?
I...
The tragic incident involving Dr. YSR, Dr, Subramanyan (IAS), John Wesley (CSO), Group Captain S.K. Bhatia and M.S. Reddy shook the nation this week.
Dr.YSR, no doubt, had risen as a colossal figure in AP politics. He was perceived as a people’s...
The party of the Boring Jobless People, that is the main opposition party of India has been hit by Alzheimers at an young age. Though the party itself is young, all its leaders have gone grey and bald beyond redemption.
Otherwise why they should be...
Actually this is a news-scoop that is being planned to be published in tomorrow or day-after-tomorrow’s newspapers. Since I got it apriori, through unofficial channels, I am bringing out a blog on it. SRK was man-handled during his interrogation...
The latest political slander going on in UP is one of the many plays that Indian netas enact for their audience. For one thing that the Indian netas have understood is that Indians need to be fed emotionally often to sideline real issues facing them.
Women...
In India section 377 is the most effective tool against child sex abuse. Not only that.
Huge number of poverty stricken Indian young men are being forced into homo-sexuality silently both in the name of myths and in the name of modernity. There is a...
TimesNow carried out an ‘expose’ targeting the private medical colleges in TamilNadu. Their find : “Private medical colleges charge capitation fees ranging from 20-75 lakhs from students”. This is in violation of government rules and Supreme...
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‘Breaking News’
“Informed sources say Prime Minister Manmohan Singh brushed his teeth very firmly on his own” – It flashed...
Now that the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s Government has sworn in, it has to concentrate on real governance of the nation.
Nobody expects any groundbreaking economic or business initiative from this government. This government would be a continuation...
