Some Charity Options in India For Those Wishing To Contribute
On the very first day of a new year 2011, let me take a few minutes to list some impressive charities that I was evaluating over the past one week. There are millions of NGOs in India helping the...
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Dear Sonia Gandhi and Congress - Is it that hard to accept the Bofors truth?
THE very first working day of 2011 was not exactly a 'Happy New Year' greeting to Sonia Gandhi and the first family of Congress party. Two big news items popped up.The first one was a very hard punch...
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Saffron or Hindu Terror: Does it Exist?
This blog is to examine if 'Saffron' or 'Hindu' terror as hitting headlines off late, exists or not. Without giving lengthy disclaimers, it would suffice to state that I am presenting my understanding...
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TV Talk Show with Pratibha Patil : After Indira Gandhi Cooking Revelation
Here is an imaginary plot of a new show conducted by a young budding female TV personality, the lines of Koffee with Karan or On Couch with Koel. All standard disclaimers applicable to fiction apply...
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2G Suicide: Almost Everything You Want to Know About Sadiq Batcha
On March 16th late morning, news started spreading like wildfire in India that an aide of now-jailed 2G scam architect, A Raja of DMK/UPA, has committed suicide.His name was Sadiq Batcha. Let me be...
View ArticleEnjoy the Silence
Let's play a game. We hear a lot about India being a secular country, having free media, human rights groups are fair in fighting for the downtrodden et. al.But are things really that fair? In the...
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Baba Ramdev and the UPA Government : The Face Off
First an honest confession. I have not been a big Baba Ramdev fan. I did watch a couple of Kapalbhati and related Pranayama videos in 2008. Tried to practice a bit of Yoga (Pic credit:...
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So Who Murdered the Mysore Students?
There is a small town called HuNasuru (translated as the town of tamarind), or Hunsur as pronounced, near Mysuru (Mysore) in southern Karnataka. This town popped into state level news off late due to a...
View ArticleLord Anantha Padmanabha and an interview with a Self Styled 'Secular'
The big news in India of course is the Anantha Padmanabha (Lord Vishnu) temple and it's stellar rise to the top of the richest temples in the world chart, in a matter of week to 10 days. While walking...
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Are You Wondering if B.S. Yedyurappa Will Resign?
It is now about 48 hours prior to the official release of Karnataka Illegal Mining report to be make public by the Lokayukta (Ombudsmen) Justice Santosh Hegde. Anything can happen in the state as well...
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Why Twitter Screamed "Sack Sheila"?
Twitter was abuzz recently with #SackSheila calls. Of course, you wouldn't see any major media house going after the CM of Delhi, like it goes after a few other CMs of India.Did you wonder why media,...
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Rajiv Malhotra : An Intellectual Kshatriya
Today, I came across Rajiv Malhotra - termed popularly as an Intellectual Kshatriya (Warrior). He is surely an awesome eloquent spokesperson for Sanatana Dharma in the West! He runs Infinity...
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Reddy Brothers and Andhra Pradesh Congress Links
It's September 2011 and Indian national media got their much needed *next BJP bashing* opportunity. On Teachers day, the entire TV media was flushed with Janardhana Reddy's arrest by CBI team that...
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Godhra Train Burning : Yet Another Rewind
We saw Narendra Modi getting yet another relief today on the judiciary side when Supreme Court handed over further probe of a particular 2002 case to a trial court. The right of center folks on...
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Deepavali Crackers and My Chat With "Modern" Neighbours
It's that time of the year. The magical, noisy, colourful, pampering & jolly-jolly Deepavali or Diwali. After 3 days of magical fun with lights, sweets, crackers and prayers, met a few neighbours...
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Critical Analysis of Sonia Gandhi's Communal Violence Bill
You might have seen a lot of reviews in 2011 about Sonia Gandhi led NAC's supposedly draconian Communal Violence Bill (CVB). I have seen a few too. But over the weekend, I got a chance to read a very...
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Sins of Congress in 2011
Now that we are done with New Year 2012 euphoria, how about spending some time to recollect some of the top sins of Congress party in the past year 2011?One of my online friend joked.. even Rajnikanth...
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Jammu and Kashmir: Injustices and Myths
The first image that comes to most minds when they hear the 'K' word for Kashmir, is the lack of peace. Depending upon which side of the opinion fence they are sitting, they will also visualize...
View Article"Wake Up BJP" : An Open Letter to Nitin Gadkari
To,Nitin GadkariNational President, Bharatiya Janata Party13, Teen Murti Lane, New Delhi - 110011Cell: +91 9821080522Tel: 91 - 11- 23011027Fax: 91 - 11- 23013027Email:...
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Lessons From Sadananda Gowda's Exit
Over the past few days, it became clear to Karnataka people that they would be having their third Chief Minister from BJP, that too in the very first term of the party's first ever government in South...
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