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Pampering the NRI is a dangerous business
The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) just went by creating a lot of sound and noise. Now, this is not anything new. Very many countries are already in the business of wooing their diaspora with incentives and offers for financial or other investments in their native states. India has in fact joined very late, considering that [...]
All of England is Diseased
I’m down with flu again, for the second time this season, and the third this year if I include the one I had in January. Half of my lab is infected - coughing is the only music I can hear.
Our housekeeper is infected, some of my housemates, my other friends…and everybody else - and for [...]
Non-White, Rucksack and Running - Dishum
Most of you will remember the poor Brazilian guy that got killed by zealous London police after the July bomb attacks on the Underground trains.
This guy was totally innocent, but being non-White and running to catch a train got him shot some eight times at close range. The police simply needed to show the Londoners [...]
Insecure India in the middle of Danger
In light of the recently concluded SAARC meet, and of our PM’s concerns regarding the insecurity that is clouding the Indian sub-continent: South Asia is a highly volatile and unstable place indeed!
Let’s start somewhere, with our favourite Pakistan. What better example can there be for a Banana Republic? The country is run by a dictator [...]
After UN, US calls Congress Corrupt
Washington Post has a detailed editorial of the fiasco that India has been suffering in its political circles after the release of the Volcker report. The report alleged that our until recently foregin minister, Natwar Singh, and the undoubtably corrupt Congress party were beneficiaries of Saddam Hussein’s “oil-for-influence” or “oil-for-money” program!
Congress has had scams and [...]
Islamophobia, Secularism, Terrorism and the Delhi blasts
One day after the deadly bombs, speculation is rife as to who the mastermind is. 61 lives and an unknown terrorist group, Inquilab, have claimed responsibility - but I wonder that this must be just cheap publicity for the new outfit.
Will the Indian Govt. step up its anti-terror strategies - it will for a few [...]
Indian democracy collapsed into Religious terror?
Martha Nussbaum has written another article which is much less unprofessional or controversial than her previous one. I had written a rebuttal to her earlier article, and continue to pooh-pooh her fears for India’s democracy.
Which intellectual would not condemn religious riots, be their perpetrators Muslim or Hindu, Catholic or Protestant? So Martha chides the “Hindu [...]
Brown skin vs. Black skin in UK
Weekend riots between African-Carribeans and Pakistanis-Bangladeshis seem to have been pre-planned.
Bangladesh used to be the hotspot of racial riots decades back when “coloured” people fought the Whites. But today, the plates have turned and Blacks are fighting the Browns.
First, an allegation by the African community that a small girl was raped behind a Paki/Bangla shop. [...]
US Family Court snubs our Supreme Court
International legal wars, India-US tensions, and a crestfallen SC! A very simple case, and a very simple direction by the Supreme Court of India have been outrightly rejected by a family court in New York!
SC has felt the slap on its face quite hard, and with fallen prestige it has requested the Govt. to take [...]
No appreciation of Relief support to Pakistan?
Musharraf has graciously accepted the first 25 tons of relief material from Manmohan Singh. Whew! That was such a huge step for Indians and Pakistanis.
India reached out a friendly hand to an enemy, who grabbed it immediately. Am I seeing the beginning of a friendship?
But what is really surprising is that not one political party [...]