It is still an ordeal in many parts of India to get to the voting venue, what with weather, distance and goons playing spoil sport. And even if you reach there on the appointed day, it is an even bigger pain to be held up in queues for hours before seeing the insides of the booth for what is increasingly being felt as an utterly useless exercise.
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It would be wrong to say that the latest Islamic Invasion ‘08 (by sea, and not through the familiar Khyber pass) took Bharat by surprise. Rather, as skeletons keep tumbling out every day, it appears that there was a mountain of omens, warnings and specific information of the impending attack.
That the Earth takes 24 hours to rotate and 365 days to complete one round needs no confirmation. But if the last eighty odd days are any proof conventional wisdom seems to have turned on its head: our good globe is on a tail spin, completing multiple somersaults in a day and several circles in just a few days.
Law schools are where the guardians and dispensers of justice are created and nurtured. They are then released into the legal mainstream as lawyers and judges to lord over and guard a key pillar of our democracy, namely, judiciary.
‘Be the change you want to see’ is perhaps the most worn out phrase in English, rendered all the more tiresome thanks to Obamania. But it reveals an elementary reality: Change lies more in the person and less in what he does. If that be so, the very presence of Obama in the White House is change personified.
The flavour of the season is pessimism. There were already enough shadows ranging from terrorism to global warming to George Bush even without the global economic meltdown. Now with pundits of all hue, from financial experts to astrologers, predicting a prolonged period of turmoil, people are wearing gloom on their sleeve.
The run-up to this Deepavali is perhaps the most tumultuous in recent times.The nation approaches the mother of all festivals with mixed feelings as never before: While the festive spirit beckons in all optimism, the ground realities prompt otherwise.
He might be on the run and under terminal siege at home, but Veluppillai Prabakaran is having a good run in TN now. The sudden escalation of temperature on the Sri Lankan issue here is really a lifeline to one of the most wanted terrorists of our times. For if the TN blackmail of the Centre succeeds, VP will get a new lease of life.
As a columnist I have a marked distaste for back to back sequels. But with bouquets and brickbats flying thick and fast over last week’s article on religious conversions, the Pandora’s box will perforce have to remain open this week too.