Archive for January, 2006
IT Learning Institutes - A farce!!!
Have you ever given a deep thought about the new IT training institute recently sprung up at the corner of your street? With tags of “100% job guarantee”, they seem to be attractive propositions for an aspiring IT professional. With the IT boom, the trend of so-called training institutes gained momentum. The situation today is [...]
Racist London Media exposed by the Police
The London Metropolitan Police Chief accuses the English media of racial prejudice. Apparently the media cares to hoot about any brown or black person being murdered, while crimes on whites are widely reported for weeks on end.
He highlighted the murders of two men from different ethnic backgrounds on the same day. While the killing of [...]
Declining Awards is a Fashionable trend in India
There has been a spate of eminent personalities declining their awards in India in recent history. The latest which has instigated this article is the disrespectful gesture by famed writer and social activist Arundhati Roy.
Arundhati Roy scurries after headlines and this must have seemed the appropriate moment to strike a national controversy. So when awarded [...]
Only Christianity can have Devil worship, logically
Christian churches and missionaries have perpetually recognized Hinduism as a huge threat and have therefore not lost any chance through the centuries in maligning it by terming it as devil worship. Though this is not as common today as before, I was reminded of it when the Russian Orthodox Church resorted this week to slandering [...]
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 [...]
Fall of BJP - Indiscipline or Un-democracy
Discipline
Some outsiders may consider the famed discipline of BJP’s politicalcadres as dictatorial and authoritative. For example, disciplineaccording to the BJP is blind and mute agreement with and devotion toits leaders. There is no space for an alternative voice within.
Now, a major plus with the BJP is its multiple power centres. Until therecent history with LK [...]
Adopting Western Trends - also a lesson for VHP
Hey friends - firstly, Happy New Year! I know I’ve neglected Hindu blog for quite long now, partly because I was away on vacation - and you know how vacations can disrupt routine!
Anyway, when I thought of the New Year, which very uniquely to the Roman calendar falls on the 1st of January, it struck [...]
BJP’s Near-Death Experience - Ideology
Continuing the analysis of BJP, this is the second part after Has BJP lost its purpose of existence? (part I). This is going to be about the party’s recent tryst with Death!
As we saw in part I, the party with a difference scores over all other political parties on three major accounts - Ideology, Discipline, [...]
AMU - A pack of Muslims without backbones
The Judiciary seems to be the only organization that is preserving the sanity of India. The Congress and most other political parties are slaves of the Muslims and this has led the community to a disappointing ruination.
Indira Gandhi promised around 1980 that Aligarh [...]
Has BJP lost its purpose of existence?
Many political analysts have by now loudly wondered about the raison d’etre for BJP anymore.
It came with a bang about Hindutva, making a lot of promises to the 800 million Hindus of India. However, throughout its period in power, it took great care not to do anything for the Hindus. And it was kicked out, [...]