Police state and illegitimate citizens
We as a society seem to be getting more and more repressed and judgmental, even as the government seems to be making more and more rules to fix problems. Living …
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Interview with Dr. Gaurav Chhabra
I got the opportunity to interview the filmmaker of the indie film InkLab that was released online yesterday Watch Film>> The filmmaker Dr. Gaurav Chhabra happens to be a good …
Gazette notification for Lokpal Bill
“The Joint Drafting Committee shall consist of five nominee ministers of the Government of India and five nominees of Shri Anna Hazare (including himself). The five nominee Ministers of the …
Thoughts on Democracy: The rulers, the opposers and the irrelevants
As a kid, I remember questioning “If someone is really good at making country decisions, but doesn’t have money to advertise, then aren’t we losing him?” That’s profound, but I …
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Tears dry, drought remains
The Indian state has managed to keep the devastating drought in the country out of the National consciousness. Just as it has kept quiet the massive destruction of water resources, …
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 …
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 …
Wikileaks: The battlelines find form
What remains to be seen is how this history will be written. The ‘masses’ are getting their dose of scandal and assuming that ‘someone’ will fix things now that they …
Rahul Gandhi is absolutely correct on Hindutva Extremism
He is right. The Muslim groups do more damage, but the Hindu groups are more dangerous because India has a Hindu majority. If we look at world news, Indian Muslims …
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