Afzal Guru: Indian democracy’s test by fire
I have been thinking about this for a long time, and I have been wondering what would the right thing be. On one hand, we have an attack on the […]
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Customer disservice
I got an SMS from Airtel warning me that my mobile phone usage was Rs.6,000/- something and that my outgoing would be disconnected if I didn’t pay up. Pay up
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Left of Right, Right of Left and off-center
Talk of mixed perspectives. A few posts I made recently have set me thinking about how many of us supposedly neither right nor left political inclinations actually have swallowed a
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Pakistan and Israel
For two countries that hate each other, both have much in common. Both are comparitively young countries. Both seem to be surrounded by enemies on all borders. Both claim to
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Save Water
I often talk about stuff like saving water, plastic, etc with kids I know. No lectures, just…. talking about it. Effects, ideas that are easy and make a difference, etc.
The Republic's abandoned kids – finally owned!
“Our republic cannot bear the stain of killing its children like this” ~ Indian Supreme Court Judge on possibility of extra-judicial killing of Maoist Azad. There is hope. This isn’t
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Governments and sexuality
Governments the world over are obsessed with regulating the sexuality of their citizens. Without getting into the histories and cultures of other countries, in this article, I limit myself to
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Women's clothing and social judgments
Just recently read a news article from Pakistan where a girl went to some party which had boys and returned late. She got raped. In the debate that stormed in
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Look ma, we have terrorists too!
What a day of pride. The religion that embraced diverse influences to include and evolve now has a new feather in its cap. We now have our own warriors. We
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