The weekend beginning Friday the 13th of Nov was very ominous for both Chennai and Paris as floods ravaged the former and much blood spilled in the latter. But many other things were common between the two distressed, distant lands. Continue Reading
MSingh’s I-Day speech was quite revealing. And his statement in Parli, most enlightening. So, if after 64 years of freedom, corruption is at an all time high today, it is only because he did not have a magic wand to check it, or so says Singh. Of course, the nation knows that he would have done precious little even if he possessed one. Some Rasputin appears to have put this idea of a Magic W in the UPA psyche because I remember Sonia too wanting one recently. Continue Reading
Let’s talk about our neighbourhood. In a fast shrinking world that would include Pakistan. Psychologically also, Pakistan is a kind of gloomy backdrop looming over us since birth and will likely be so in perpetuity, unless it ceases to exist. Continue Reading
They were all either in their late twenties or early thirties. Barring one or two, most of them have kids under the age of five. They had left their native towns and families behind to answer the call Continue Reading
A government that cannot protect its people has no right to rule
– L.K. Advani, Home Minister
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