The long dark tea time of the soul

APJ Abdul Kalam’s tenure as the president of India ends in july next year, and a search has already started to find India’s next head of state. The political temperature is already heating up, with names being propped up from left (Somenath Chatterjee), right (B.S. Shekhawat) and center (Karan Singh). And somebody actually [...]

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Douglas Adams says in one of his books, “nothing travels faster than light with the exception of bad news”. His conjecture is mostly assumed to be true. Bad news always transfers faster than light.
North Korea (DPRK) did its first nuclear test on 9th october and now, depending on who you believe, is either apologetic or [...]

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Indian army’s The famous Indian paramilitary unit naga batallion is in Chhattisgarh. To flush out the naxalites, as they say. And of course, they have not been successful in doing that in last two years.
But this post is about a bengali shopkeeper in Dornapal, who was shot dead by jawans of Indian army on 17th [...]

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Despite the (over?)crowding of journalists in Indian blogsophere, and despite recent remarkable collective attempts at fighting censorship by the bloggers of our country, I was slightly disappointed that the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, fearless russian journalist found no mention on prominent Indian blogs. The lack of condemnation of that incident by the Indian government is [...]

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Overheard in a restaurant conversation, a national level congress party member saying this:
Congress party is a binary party, there are only zeroes and ones. Madam is one, everybody else is a zero. You add the zeroes, multiply the zeroes, divide the zeroes, and you still get a zero.
Interesting.

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‘Der aaye, durust aaye’ is applicable for prasar bharti. And Doordarshan is going a step further now. War and Peace, a documentary by Anand Patwardhan, made in the aftermath of India’s nuclear tests in 1998 will finally be shown on Doordarshan national (DD1).
Mark your schedulers for this Sunday, 15th October, 10:30 am IST.
Last sunday, 8th [...]

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“Ami nirdosh, aamake ora mere phelche (I am innocent, they are killing me)”, this was one of the last sentences, and possibly the dying declaration of the first Indian to be sent to the gallows in 21st century. Amid widespread public debate, hysterical frenzy, Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 44, rapist and murderer, was hanged nearly two [...]

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On 1st of this month, the world witnessed the muder of a young Tibetan nun by chinese forces in full public view. A detailed report of what happenned can be found here.
According to it,
The Nangpa Pass serves as a main trading route between Tibet and Nepal, and is commonly used as an escape route by [...]

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Tabassum guru, wife of Mohammad Afzal Guru, wrote a public appeal for justice which was published on 21st October 2004 in Kashmir Times. Mohammad Afzal guru has beed declared as an accomplice in the attack on the Indian parliament in december 2001, and the death sentence awarded to him by the trial court has been [...]

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When our ‘honourable’ supreme court fixed the date of hanging for Afzal Guru last week, they knew precisely what is going to happen in the coming days. The widespread protests against the judgement in the Kashmir valley, raising Afzal Guru to an iconic stature by the separatists, the fundamentalists grabbing the issue with talks of [...]

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