Winston Churchill once said of India – ‘ India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation like the equator ’. Churchill was also of the belief that while Pakistan would flourish, India was doomed to disintegrate and fail. Churchill, with all his hatred for India was probably talking logically. India is [...]
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s true for Physics but humans are a different ball game . How do situations get out of hand ? It’s just action and reaction and before you know it there is chaos and mayhem. I’ve often experienced the same time and again. Conflicts all [...]
The early 1990s were politically significant in mainly two respects – 1. the emergence of caste politics. 2. the emergence of the BJP. Theoretically speaking, the emergence of one should have been the end of the other. After all, one seeks to construct a solid block of voters who vote solely in the name of [...]
Watching Mehbooba Mufti assault the speaker of the J & K Assembly, I could not help but question whether or not these female politicians were in touch with their feminine sides. I am in no way trying to be sexist here or imply that all women must be soft-spoken, polite dainty darlings. Nor I am [...]
One look at the above picture should be enough to make anyone drool! Yes, it’s Nokia’s flagship “Multimedia Computer” N97 along with the HTC Touch Diamond2. I had the fortune of playing with both these sexy gadgets this month and I’d like to share some views. Let me disappoint anyone and everyone who is expecting [...]
For the last few days, I have been engrossed in reading ‘Temptations of the West’ by Pankaj Mishra. Mishra is from the same tribe of activist writers like Arundhati Roy, very anti-establishment. One of Mishra’s more famous travesties against the Indian state was the allegation that Hindu nationalists were behind the massacre of Chhatisinghpura in [...]
In my last post I mentioned Gandhi and non violence. Gandhi once mentioned that true non violence can be practiced by the strong, it isn’t for the weak. The strong chooses, the weak is forced. For me nothing epitomises the sentiment more so than the Khudai Khidmatgar movement. Khudai Khidmatgar ( also known as Red [...]
Yesterday on Facebook I proposed civil disobedience in protest of the Punjab Government’s failure to provide power supply to the state. It was only meant to be a facetious rant but the responses made me realize a few things. I was ridiculed and derided, told that the moment the police came down on me with [...]
This is something that I just had to write. This week’s Outlook is dedicated to the problem of racism in India. I was familiar with the problem because I was the problem. The racism problem isn’t the most talked about in India. We Indians simply refuse to accept that we have a problem. Indians don’t [...]
Last night, India got kicked out of the T-20 World Cup by England. And as I suspected the journos who’ve probably never picked up a bat are aiming for the cricketers’ throats. It’s so amusing to watch their opinions swing like a pendulum – one moment Team India was the best, the next moment Team [...]