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Sonia breaks her silence – and with it her innocence
Sonia Gandhi finally broke her silence on Anna Hazare. She defended the draft put forth by her partymen – and asked Anna to do the same. Anyone who has been…
Pawar–One slap is not enough
Angry at rising food prices, a man recently resorted to slapping Sharad Pawar (the Agriculture minister linked with more scams than he has hair). Violence can never be condoned. However,…
Buy Stamps–Save Tigers
This is insane. Is it possible to imagine a world without Tigers? There’s only 3500 tigers left in the wild (UPDATE = 5574 Tigers in the wild as per 2024…
Let there be light!
Today I met an IITian who is trying to make a difference. When he returned to India (after working in the ), he was obligated to go visit a farmland…
Tedhi Baat – The Siddhu Episode (played by Shekhar Suman)
Gurpal interviews Navjot Singh Siddhu (played by Shekhar Suman) in this episode of Tedhi ; You know that there is mischief afoot when Siddhu (played by Shekhar Suman) opens…
Manmohan Singh addresses the UN
Sept 24, 2011 Manny made me proud as he took a stab at curbing external military interference into the affairs of sovereign democracies. His exact words were: “Societies cannot be…
On Calcutta and the spirit of ‘Pujos’
As an outsider who witnessed Pujos for the first time a couple of years ago, I could not agree more with Vir Sanghvi’s article on Calcutta, Bengalis and the spirit…
Rahul Gandhi, Anna Hazare and Gandhigiri
Rahul Gandhi keeps showing the Indian people the level of his immaturity. He claims to be a true ‘Gandhian’ – just because he has watched Lage Raho Munnabhai multiple times.…
Of Rahul and Shashi
Rahul’s Legacy Rahul Gandhi’s great grandfather would have stood alongside Anna Hazare. He would have lambasted the current ruling parties whether they consisted of his own kith or kin or…