Category archive for ‘Featured’

• Language Nationalism in India: No more jobs

  21 September 06 • 1 comment

  The Govt. of Karnataka has recently announced the closure of about 800 schools, and why, because their medium of instruction was English and not Kannada. I’m going to tackle the language nationalism with English in this article, not the hotter one regarding Hindi. All the schools closed are in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India…

• Sing Vande Mataram or Quit India

  2 September 06 • 8 comments

  Is this how a democracy is supposed to work? I think our people have got the formula wrong. It is a dictatorship if I have to be patriotic to live in India. In a democracy I should be permitted be as un-patriotic as I like and to even hate the country that I live in….

• MPs fight in Parliament again embarrassing Indians across the world

  25 August 06 • 2 comments

  I was embarrassed and laughed aloud on reading the headline on BBC’s website: Indian MPs almost come to blows. The members of the two parties shouted at each other and in a fit of anger, Mr Yadav’s party colleague and brother-in-law, Sadhu Yadav, rushed towards Mr Singh. He was stopped by other members. Another angry…

• Even the politicians lack freedom of speech in India

  30 May 06 • 3 comments

  Continuing on from the previous post where we saw how celebrities such as Aamir Khan are harrassed for their views and opinions. But, even the politicians who run the world’s largest democracy are denied the freedom of expression! Politicians kicked royally for holding diverse opinions In the UK and even the USA many MPs hold…

• Aamir Khan has no freedom of speech – Do you or I?

  26 May 06 • 7 comments

  

  There are many instances where India is proud of herself, and the health of its democracy is one of them, especially because all the dignitaries from other countries keep pampering India on this note. India might be a well-functioning democracy in the electoral sense, but I don’t see it in any other sphere of Indian…

• Uranium-poisoned villagers point to Irresponsible India

  20 May 06 • 3 comments

  

  BBC has done a exposé on how a village in Jharkhand has been affected by nuclear wastes from the Uranium mining that goes on there. The village of Jaduguda boasts the most important (and the only?) uranium mine in India. State-owned Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) is the owner of the mines and brought…

• New face of Police beating up students

  16 May 06 • 6 comments

  This is a guest column written by “amolagirhe” Medical students were protesting against the reservations at Mumbai. They did not have any weapons. It was going on very peacefully. Suddenly, police arrived and asked the students to leave. Students peacefully answered that they want to talk to Governor. The intention was to send the message…

• India falling into a Nuclear trap with bully USA?

  16 May 06 • 3 comments

  Many have warned that India is losing its sovereignity by entering the nuclear deal with USA. The thing is, US has imposed far too many restrictions on India as conditions to the deal. And India is trying to keep them! Separation of civilian and military nuclear facilities has already been done and the civilian facilities…

• India is a sinking ship, jump out NOW

  9 May 06 • 6 comments

  It is with great sadness that I write this – advocating brain drain for India. Well, the practicalities of this, I recognize, are futile, but the idea holds water and even gains strength from the ongoing madness of Manmohan Singh’s government. The largest democracy is ruled by a Prime Minister without a backbone. All that…

• 2 years in power for UPA – 20 years worth of damage

  16 April 06 • 1 comment

  UPA is planning to celebrate its second anniversary of what they seem to call governance in India. Let’s see if what they did is befitting of the high meanings of the word ‘governance’. Or if they have brought disrespect and something akin to anarchy in India. Why all their allies are turning against them and…

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