How another tragedy, of a grave dimension, was botched up (Viewed 551 times)
Written by N.D.Sharma
No one resigned, no one offered to resign, and no heads rolled when a disaster, though of a different kind from the one in Mumbai but no less enormous in its gravity, struck Bhopal this day 24 years ago. The victims belonged to the lower-middle and lower strata of the society. They, ...
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Published on December 03, 2008 In General
Youth, Violence and Terrorism: Why this fatal attraction? (Viewed 573 times)
Written by Anita Ratnam
In the midst of the ghastly images of bloodshed and brutality in Mumbai, the loss of lives and the reign of fear, the images of the young faces of the "terrorists" continue to pose very basic questions about youths' attraction to terrorism and violence. What actually ...
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Published on December 03, 2008 In General
If we can't change this nation, we deserve it (Viewed 563 times)
Written by Amit Sengupta
It's time to think of a paradigm shift. It's time to redifine time and space, time-present and time-future, stand up and act, wear our trousers rolled. It might seem impossible, but history stands testimony that it is the margins who define the mainstreams, across the spectrum ...
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Published on December 01, 2008 In General
Who is this Sajan Kapur? Were gunmen paid to create Mumbai terror? (Viewed 1175 times)
Written by Girish Nikam
As the debris of the 60 hour long Mumbai nightmare is cleared and the dead are laid to rest and medical fraternity try to save as much of the injured as they can, it is time for questions to be raised. Many have already been raised and more will continue to be raised from all over ...
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Published on November 29, 2008 In General
Can we be spared of the nightmare rallies of political parties? (Viewed 690 times)
Written by A. Jayaram
The Janata Dal (Secular) has few friends left in the State Capital, Bangalore after its November 17 rally which caused untold hardship to thousands of citizens. It turned out to be a nightmare for the citizens and it continues to haunt many a citizen, though it is many days since ...
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Published on November 29, 2008 In General
Madhya Pradesh: A wave-less election, up for grabs (Viewed 592 times)
Written by N.D.Sharma
Heartening news for Kamal Nath: a British journalist touring Madhya Pradesh to cover the Assembly elections for his news agency remarked that Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath had made many admirers in Geneva (in the course of his WTO interactions) and they all felt that he deserved ...
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Published on November 27, 2008 In General
Manmohan's temptation to do a Vajpayee—is it worth it? (Viewed 533 times)
Written by Girish Nikam
In the year 2003, around the same time when elections to the five states, where it is underway now, was on, all the talk centred around the impact of those elections on the Lok Sabha and its longevity. When the results came out in favour of the BJP, which managed to wrest, Madhya ...
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Published on November 25, 2008 In General
Corridor whispers (Viewed 599 times)
Written by Insider
Stamped out of Favour------------------------------A commemorative stamp of Margaret Alva's in-laws --- late Joachim and Violet Alva was recently released by President Pratibha Patil coinciding with the birth centenary year of the couple but Congressmen including the minister-in-charge ...
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Published on November 24, 2008 In General
L.K.Advani ko "shock aur outrage" kyon hota hai? (Viewed 682 times)
Written by Girish Nikam
It was touching to read the way in which the BJP's Prime Minister-in-waiting L.K.Advani rushed to the defence of one of the accused in the Malegaon blasts, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur the other day. His reasoning that he had kept quiet all this time as Sadhus and Sadhvis and army ...
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Published on November 20, 2008 In General
The truth behind the BJP Manifesto in MP (Viewed 623 times)
Written by N.D.Sharma
It is election time in Madhya Pradesh. It is also the time to tell lies. The party in power invents bigger lies in proportion to the public money it has swindled. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the ruling party in the State, has encased its lies neatly in a 100-page, coloured ...
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Published on November 20, 2008 In General
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