Right now, Happy Republic Day is trending at no.8 on Twitter. So is #HolyCrapBatman at no.6 and at no.1 is #thoughtsonthetoilet. You get the drift? Certain enthusiastic patriot jumped up in joy and tweeted "Indians are dominating Twitter too, Happy Republic Day is trending." "Of course it will trend, because Americans are sleeping otherwise something… [Read more…]
December 15, 2008
The Iraqi journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, 28, a correspondent for Al Baghdadia, an independent Iraqi television station, stood up about 12 feet from Mr. Bush and shouted in Arabic: “This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog!” He then threw a shoe at Mr. Bush, who ducked and narrowly avoided… [Read more…]
November 6, 2008
New Delhi (PTI): A group of ABVP activists on Thursday went on a rampage at Delhi University, vandalising the venue of a seminar in protest against presence of SAR Geelani, acquitted in the Parliament attack case, and spat on him. Around 50 youths damaged property and hurled abuses on Geelani at the seminar on ‘Communalism,… [Read more…]
September 17, 2008
The previous post on Delhi Blasts is one of the most un-biased post I have ever written. I gave enough thoughts before writing it, I read the draft over and over again to ensure I wasn’t blaming any religious community. It kind of paid too, the post got a record 296 unique page views on… [Read more…]
September 14, 2008
My family, my whole family, mom dad sis, had a narrow escape in today’s Delhi serial blasts. By ‘narrow’ I mean really really narrow. They were a few meters away from the blast site, and were AT the site from where live bombs were found minutes later. Only I know what I felt during the… [Read more…]
September 9, 2008
India’s Supreme Court has refused to launch criminal proceedings against one of the country’s best-known and controversial artists, MF Husain. Hussain was alleged to have offended Hindus with a painting in which he represented India as a nude goddess. But the Court said Mr Husain’s paintings were not obscene and nudity was common in Indian… [Read more…]
August 29, 2008
The church has condemned the killing of VHP leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati , but do we have a single Hindu priest or extremist or not so extremist condemning the killing of the nun or attacks on harmless christian household setting ablaze church after church and even police station. Is there anybody from the Hindu brigade… [Read more…]
August 23, 2008
I happened to have by chance stumbled upon Atanu Dey‘s blog post on Haj Subsidy. It was an interesting read and I kind of agreed on most of his arguments. What I particularly liked is the alternative he has suggested to Indian Government to follow till the time the Haj Subsidy is totally abolished. I… [Read more…]
June 26, 2008
There is this latest controversy in Kerela on a 7th standard school text book as reported by The Telegraph For the past one week, pro-UDF student activists have been out on the streets, attacking the police, burning textbooks and damaging public property. Arrested leaders of the Kerala Student Union have launched a fast in jail.… [Read more…]
March 11, 2008
This video released by UNFPA tells the stoy of the unborn who was never born. Picture this, India outlawed gender selection and selective abortion in 1994, but the practice still continues. British medical journal Lancet says 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India in the past 20 years Source: BBC Over and over… [Read more…]
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