Posted by sanjaykaul on January 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Cornered like never before, the Congress is trying everything it can to save its skin – from deflecting issues to gunning for Hindu organizations – and from using the CBI to its own purposes to destroying the credibility of the CAG. But with the series of scams at its doorstep, will it ever live down … Read more
Filed under Politics · Tagged with 2G spectrum, Adarsh Society Mumbai, BJP, Bofors, CAG, CBI, Congress party, corruption in government, corruption in India under UPA, CW Games, DNK, Guwahati Executive 2011, inflation, Malegaon blasts, NDA, Quattrocchi, RSS, scams, TMC, UPA
Posted by sanjaykaul on November 1, 2010 · 2 Comments
The Government of India’s choice of interlocuters had raised eyebrows. Now they are raising hackles. The ‘open mind and big heart’, as one of the interlocuters declared with gusto, is looking more like an open mine and a big mouth. Academicians are particularly destined to carry their share of the dubious weight of collective memory. … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on August 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The new-found Kashmiri talent for chucking stones at Indian forces is raising the bar for foreign policy, political gamesmanship, civil society activism and even sport. So is this the Kashmiri’s new weapon of mass distraction? Or are we too stoned to register? The latest round of stone pelting in Kashmir has a lot of people … Read more
Filed under Governance · Tagged with Alpana Kishore, Azadi, Congress party, identity crisis, Indian Muslims, Inidian state, intifada, Kashmir, Kashmiri identity, Mirwaiz Farooq, mobs, Muslims, Omar Abdullah, Pakistan, Pakistani, Palestine, stone pelting, stoned immaculate
Posted by sanjaykaul on May 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The power regulator asks private electric distribution companies to reduce tariff since they made huge profits. The Chief Minister of Delhi steps in and says people of Delhi are rich enough to pay and ticks off the regulator. Unbelievable, but true! The repeated controversies involving power distribution companies in Delhi after privatization of the … Read more
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