Archive for September, 2005
The great Indian middle class…
…growing at a rapid rate. There are a few million ascending into the middle class every year. This reflects the robust growth of the economy.
But of course, this also is evidence to the rising wealth among India’s poor. The lower class people are slowly, but steadily, entering the lower middle class - which is a [...]
Communist strike protesting reforms and progress
It is such a irony that the Comrades call themselves “progressive”! If they are so hell-bent against reform and progress, what right do they have over the term?
I guess it is just a trap to attract the youth. I am still young of age, and as said by somebody I really can’t remember now, India [...]
Siachen glacier - to abandon or not to
This is the question to which our leaders have found the brilliant answer - Abandon it!
Why did our world-famous military fight for this post and our bravest soldiers lose many lives if we are going to abandon it anyway? Has the Manmohan Singh government gone crazy?
Pakistan will ofcourse want India to abandon Siachen because we [...]
Economy boom - will it fall?
As we all know, the Indian economy is on a bull run. It has been on a bull run since Vajpayee’s times. After a brief run downhill as soon as the Communist-backed Congress came into power, it has renewed its climb and has now crossed 8500!
That’s excellent news for the Indian market, industries, investors and [...]
Sourav Ganguly and Greg Chappell shake hands
So, after days of bitter fighting, speculating and rumor-mongering, the fight has been suspended. I dare say only suspended because neither Ganguly nor Chappell has been dismissed - I thought and hoped that the former would be…
So Ganguly has been behaving rather irresponsibly by altering the team order and other important things in the last [...]
Gigolos captivate Indians, the lure of male prostitutes
I wrote about the Outlook article on gigolos only two days back, and since then there has been such a steady traffic to Indiblog! People have been searching for “gigolos in India”, “Indian gigolos”, “gigolos Mumbai”, “gigolos in Delhi” and gigolos here and gigolos there…
It is quite amusing to see the new-found captivation of the [...]
Changing scenes of Indian Sex and Sexuality
I have deliberately capitalized Sex and Sexuality to reflect the command the words have not only in Indian society but in the entire world.
Homosexuality is illegal in India because of
Section 377 asserts: “Whosoever has carnal intercourse voluntarily against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life, [...]
Greg Chappell’s email - Cricket Controversy in India boils over
Greg Chappell clarifies that he did not ask Ganguly to step down at any point. On being asked by Ganguly himself, he said:
I told him that I thought he was struggling as a player and that it was affecting his ability to lead the team effectively and that the pressure of captaincy was affecting his [...]
India 2005 - hungry girls committing suicide
It makes such a heart-rending story that has made the headlines of all the major newspapers in the world - the story of a poor girl who committed suicide because she could not have lunch.
Sania Khatun is just the tip of the iceberg - it seems that 50% of India’s children are malnourished. And we [...]
Manmohan Singh - the next Bush’s poodle after Blair?
Well, after Manmohan Singh’s recent visit the Big Brother, the Indian govt. seems to have really cozied up to Bush and his policies. India has now sided with USA for referring Iran to the UN Security Council - this could be in the strategic interests of India to gain nuclear material for power generation from [...]