If one were to pick a single policy decision that changed the face of India in the last many years, it has to be the reservation system. Reservation for jobs. Reservation for education. Reservation for public service. All to ensure that our poor and downtrodden get to share the benefits of our growth. Contrary...
Krishna has finally taken that promised kalyuga rebirth. By all accounts, a certain son of the Gandhi clan is the latest reincarnation of the god who gave us the Geeta. The evidence is irrefutable. Take a look. Krishna is said to go out in disguise to get to know his people and their problems....
It’s been two years since that fateful day when a handful of Pakistani terrorists brought India to its knees. Today all we have to show for the 26/11 attacks is tantrum Ajmal Kasab cooling his heels in jail awaiting the death penalty. Nobody knows when he will actually get his punishment, given the long...
The National Film Awards were announced today. Amitabh Bachchan won best actor, 3 Idiots won best popular film yada yada yada. However, that’s not what we are going to talk about. There were some additional awards that never got announced. Here’s the scoop. The movie that wins the award for Best WholeSale Entertainment is Kites. There...
While we lesser minions get to carve a cake once a year, UP chief minister Mayawati carved a new district out of some parts of Uttar Pradesh last week. Good for her – she gets to consolidate her ever bulging vote bank muscle. This new district will be called Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar. (Happy...
The great Indian elections of 2009 are over after five phases of voting spread over a month, over 400 million votes cast, several thousand candidates, and billions of dollars spent by all concerned. The massive logistical exercise ended in a massive victory for the Congress, which gained plenty of seats at the expense of...
The third phase of The Great Indian Election of 2009 is all set for April 30. A total of 1,567 candidates, including 101 women contestants, are in the fray for the 107 seats going to the polls in round III. UP Chief Minister Mayawati raised her case for Prime Ministership on caste grounds saying...
The week began on a jingoist note as the hyper nationalists of Shiv Sena attacked lawyer Anjali Waghmare because she is going to be the lawyer for 11/26 terrorist Kasab. Poor woman is just doing her job – she was appointed by the court as Kasab’s lawyer. On the positive side, now that we...
Pranab Mukherjee is a great son of India who has had a long and distinguished political career. Ever since his accidental inclusion in the union cabinet to achieve an auspicious count of ministers way back in 1973, he has worked tirelessly towards making India a better place to live. But after all these years...
On occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, which is being marked as the International Day of Non Violence by the United Nations this year, Sonia Gandhi today addressed the UN General Assembly. Normally UN addresses are made by heads of state. So we’re guessing that she must be the prime minister of India. Or at least...
