7th Standard Textbook – Good,Bad and the holy beast
The Kerala Government continues to refuse demands for withdrawal of the 7th Standard Textbook which promotes Atheism and questions God.In completely unrelated news, the Monsoon has literally kept out...
View ArticleEventhough that time has come
Dear Shri Pranab Mukherjee, ....that time has come - Signed: Prakash Karat, A B Bardhan, Debabrata Biswas, T J Chandrachoodan - and a few of us sighed and others, Good Riddance! said the TOI editorial,...
View ArticleElections 2009: Saffron Gandhi and the Acharubishop
"If anyone raises a finger towards Hindus or if someone thinks that Hindus are weak and leaderless, if someone thinks that these leaders lick our boots for votes, if anyone raises a finger towards...
View ArticleKing Thackeray and Dhara Patil
It can't get better - My Man is going to wrestle My Useless Man. It seems Raj Thackeray said "he would beat Patil with shoes for neglecting his constituency". And Patil, who effectively beat our...
View ArticleDiscover India Essay: “One Billion and Counting”Â
This essay of mine won the Discover India Essay prize at University of Michigan. The event was the first India Business Conference at Michigan. The Essay won me a certificate and whole lot of money in...
View ArticleTelangana,Self-respect, and Identity
Lets go back to 1982, to the political vacuum of Telugu’s land. To Begumpet Airport. T. Anjaiah, the Chief Minister of Andhra, yet another Congress chief minister installed through the “revolving door...
View ArticleEnding terrorizing ourselves
Friedman has a beautiful piece on America's priorities and the precariousness of the national psyche. In his OP-ED in times, Friedman talks about "my president, whose agenda can be derailed at any...
View ArticleSania Pakistani and Sonia Italian
My friend's status message on facebook asks a simple question to Papa Bear (Emperor of the Hindu hearts) - If Sania becomes a Pakistani by marrying Shoaib Mallik, how is Sonia still Italian? It's...
View ArticleKerala History: Glimpses from 1956 to 2011
Because rather than big events, we have focused on big patterns. And while we disagree on a lot many things here - political, cultural, developmental, social, and personal, I hope we all agree that...
View ArticleAjmal Kasab and Amish school massacre
Ajmal Kasab who is dead now, was given due process, and legal help by the Indian state. That's definitely something Maharashtra and Union governments can be proud of. We are not Somalia or Afghanistan...
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