Phase three of the Great Indian Elections is over. Polling was held for 107 Lok Sabha seats last week.
Mumbai turned out to be quite a spectacle, with celebrity after ignorant celebrity raising their middle finger to the eager cameras, after some logistical issues led the election agencies to mark their middle fingers instead of the traditional index finger.

In SriLanka, the LTTE have been pushed into a corner by the government forces, and Tamil leaders in India seem to have taken up support for the separatist LTTE.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi went on a sudden fast demanding cease fire in SriLanka and called it off following the end of the SriLankan offensive. PMK leader S Ramadoss described LTTE chief Prabhakaran as a freedom fighter comparable to Nelson Mandela and Subhash Chandra Bose.
BSP Chief Mayawati alleged that her perennial enemy, the Samajwadi party, was colluding with the BJP to split the muslim vote and thus help the BJP.
Seriously, don’t such statements offend the community being treated as a mere vote bank? What can we expect from such politicians for whom the people are mere votes, to be manipulated and played into submission?
Meanwhile, there is a new ‘5-star’ police chowki in Lucknow to guard the CM’s dream project, the Ambedkar Memorial at Gomtinagar. This police post was constructed at a cost of Rs 1.2 crore, making it the most expensive in the country.
The Supreme Court rapped the Congress government for its failure to provide adequate water supply to the country and constituted a committee to look into solving the water woes of the country.
Time released its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. SAJA did a roundup of desi personalities on the list. Sonia Gandhi is in, as is Ratan Tata, and Ronnie Screwala.
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam received America’s most prestigious engineering prize for service to humanity, the Hoover award, at Columbia University.
11/26 accused Ajmal Amir Kasab raised requests for an Urdu newspaper, perfume, and a toothpaste. Varun Gandhi rued the comparison in a rally - I was given Lauki to eat, and Kasab gets Tandoori Chicken.
Meanwhile Kasab’s trial continues at an expedited pace. The Indian authorities finally concluded that he is an adult, after tests to determine his age. Five months after the November attacks, at least know for sure that he should not be tried in a juvenile court. This trial is progressing at the pace of Chandrayaan approaching the Moon.
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