Just a one-line letter to Indian Prime Minister as his cabinet reshuffling work is in progress! Continue reading
“We rely on everyday Americans giving whatever they can afford — and I want to spend time with a few of you,” Obama is himself appealing. Obama even sent mails to raise funds for his repeat bid to the White House, saying anyone who donates at least $5 is automatically placed into a lottery for a dinner with him. Continue reading
Was it proper on the part of opposition leader Sushma Swaraj to sing & dance at the Raj Ghat in New Delhi? Congress is attacking her for the jig. She, though, feels ‘no place and no occasion is wrong for singing and dancing in praise of our motherland’. What do you think? In the meantime, Congress General Secretary has already called Sushma’s BJP as a party of dancers. An illustration. Continue reading
The mix-up continues. 1-by-1, day-after-day India’s Most Wanted List handed over to Pakistan is becoming a laughing stock. I’ve not forgotten the similar other gaffe by Home Minister’s colleague SM Krishna who had actually read another country’s speech at the United Nations. Did Krishna played this up, again or is it another act of Aamir Khan of 3 Idiots. Continue reading
Forthcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh will be different next season. Some are preparing candidates, others are looking for issues. Congress’ star campaigner Rahul Gandhi meanwhile found time to tour the industrial town of Noida in neighbouring Delhi and quickly wrote this autobiography during his brief custody. Continue reading
Rahul Gandhi is aiming Uttar Pradesh that goes to polls in 2012. Noida, but naturally, seems too close for him to go and conquer. But what about the tall claims. Do you have the truth, man? And have we forgotten Sushil Sharma, a Congress leader who had chopped and burnt his wife in a tandoor, not even a kilometer from the Indian Parliament. Continue reading
His critics say he could not read the writing on the wall; and remained clueless until his CPM, that ruled the eastern Indian state of West Bengal for record straight 34 years, sank in the 2011 assembly elections — with just 40 seats out of 294 that went to polls. This jolt can actually leave any political party red. But this gentleman Mr. Prakash Karat appears rigid despite the fact that he is unlikely to lead his party to victory in near future. I just caricatured him, thus: Continue reading
When big things happen, I often turn to the walls of my computer room. Well, it is certainly not like a WikiLeaks bunker but that every-which thing is certainly there with which I have grown up. You may say… I love myself. And to that degree I also love this photograph of Jayalalitha who has just decimated her rivals, critics, opponents and all pointing fingers in Tamil Nadu this assembly elections. Continue reading
I was a student when the Soviet Union collapsed. I was still learning when Eastern Europe turned to capitalism. But this Friday, the 13th of 2011, I saw the citadel of Communists collapsing, melting, crumbling before my eyes… just because it was to be a green letter day… and all because of a gutsy, hungry woman named Mamata Banerjee who, I hope, will now be an inspiration to those resisting repressive regimes. Continue reading
Left defeat or Left win – I am not concerned. Will it be an end to one of the world’s longest-running democratically-elected Communist governments – I am not concerned. Will the results be a cause of concern for our Communist neighbour China – I am not concerned. Right now, I am only concerned about the people of the state who have been promised Switzerland in India’s east. Continue reading
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