Incompetent Nincompoop

The daughter of a legislator (Kerala MLA C H Kunjambu) was abducted by some rogue elements and beaten for speaking with a guy. This is shameful in itself and the media has rightly raised cries of talibanization of Karnataka. But what takes the cake is the remark from the state home minister, as TOI reports:
Karnataka [...]

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LeT’s latest gimmick

Violence not only answer to Kashmir – Lashkar-e-Taiba | Top News | Reuters.
“We don’t see the armed struggle as the only way to achieve our goal, if the world listens to our cries and plays its role in resolving the Kashmir issue,”
Said a spokesman for Lashkar-e-Taiba. After killing thousands of innocent civilians in India; this [...]

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Interconnectedness

 
The world of information is very connected, and I am sure a lot of people have extolled the virtues of this in countless articles. I have often been a consumer of such information through the web – but today’s incursion into the world wide web of information was quite interesting. I had been reading a [...]

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Terrorism

The surge in bomb attacks by terrors has increased significantly in the recent past, with Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and now Delhi being attacked by the islamist terrorists going by the name of Indian Mujahideen. It is dastardly to target innocent civilians and it perhaps harms the mujahideen more than helps them. TOI reports that the [...]

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Religion

Not so long ago, i had mentioned to a friend the unique nature of Indian culture to assimilate alien concepts, particularly where theology is concerned. Thus, while the Hindu believes in trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh which are perhaps a notch below the all pervasive Shakti or “a cosmic power”, it accepts all sorts of individuals [...]

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Persecution

Is the age old of persecution of Jews now being replaced by the persecution of the Muslims? This story in Outlook points out interesting developments in the backdrop of increasing radicalizations of Indian Muslims – historically viewed as pieceful and backward minority community that was scared against the majority Hindu community, the article describes how [...]

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Hypocrisy

For all my cosmopolitan leanings i remain a staunch nationalist:
The nightlong battle came after one Indian soldier and four Pakistanis were killed Monday along the border between sections of Kashmir
reports the New York Times on recent violation of ceasefire by Pakistan. As General Patton (or some US general during the WWII) said – war is [...]

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Pakistan

Just saw an ad on CNN aimed at increasing business investments in Pakistan. It is presumable that the advertisement was paid for by some agency of the government of Pakistan. Not unlike the !ncredible India campaign executed by the Ministry of Tourism in India, this particular ad amused me. It was all big buildings, happy [...]

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A Fine Balance

I have just about finished reading “A Fine Balance”, an excellent novel by Rohinton Mistry. Mr. Mistry writes the story of four individuals who come together for a brief period during the Emergency in India. Two of these individuals are unrelated Parsis while the other two are related individuals, members of the so called ‘Untouchable’ [...]

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Better Language

Pratap Bhanu Mehta says what i have been saying in a few previous posts, but does it more succinctly and powerfully:
The imperative of identifying citizens through communal categories has distinct sources. The first is the understandable proposition that the axis of identity might also define the lines of disempowerment and subordination. These forms of injustice [...]

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