Mumbai Under Siege

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Mumbai wakes up to the worst ever morning.
Late last night a band of terrorists consisting of kids as young as 22 in sweat shirts and backpacks executed a well orchestrated attack on of the most most upscale and important localities in South Mumbai.This area houses the state assembly, naval head quaters, a very important research [...]

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Obama and the Civil War

A few pictures from a recent civil war re-enactment  that I visited. Amongst the bonnie blue flags, ball gowns and cannon balls, it was a pleasant surprise to hear Obama’s name not just once. That really tells you a lot about the contemporary national sentiment

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Things to Ponder about!

Haven’t been blogging for sometime now, but here are some things that really bother me

Palin and her folksy values about guns, foreign policy and global warming. Palin is becoming more of an issue, not due to her inferior competency but due [...]

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CNN Citizen Journalist

CNN recently launched ireport.com dedicated for user produced news. This has taken blogging and user involvement to a new level.

CNN executives acknowledge that iReport.com’s openness is something of a departure for a news organization that prides itself on accuracy and editorial judgment. But iReports have become increasingly popular, and in many cases have even proved [...]

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Clinton Lecture at UVA

A day before the primary at Virginia, noted political scientist invited all the presidential candidates to deliver a guest lecture to his class at the University of Virginia. The first to accept would be invited to speak and it was Clinton’s camp.
Clinton spoke for 10 minutes, after which the conversation turned into a question and [...]

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Left KO elsewhere

This has definitely not been a good season for the communists around the world, be it Cuba or India.
Hugo Chavez had some cruel intentions which irked me; I guess he was well within the rights of any communist agenda.  Although, Chavez recently lost the elections  to the Prime Ministers office, mandate from recent elections in [...]

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Serial Blasts In Uttar Pradesh

First, it was a massive attack on the temple of the world’s largest democracy and now its Independent Judicial system. Wonder is this has anything to the imposition of Emergency in Pakistan and this one of the repercussions that India is facing like I has mentioned in my previous post.
Three serial bomb blasts, all within [...]

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Pakistan Loses Commonwealth membership

Finally, the international community has reacted to Gen. Musharaff’s attrocity by suspending Pakistan’s membership from the 53 nation Commonwealth. It is such a pity that the entire nation has to bear the brunt from the wrong doings of one individual.
What does Pakistan stand to lose from this suspension?

Further isolation from the international community
discourages any FDI [...]

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Technology: The New Helm of Indian Politics

Gujarat is synonymous with entrepreneurship and yet again! Well, now you know what’s common with Modi, Hillary and Obama. All the three are using Youtube for their political activism and propaganda. Orkut too isn’t far behind.
Never did anyone think that the Narendra Modi, the self proclaimed ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’ would take to the internet so [...]

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Nandigram: Hidden Agendas?

Three things that irk me on the Nandigram issue

PM is ever so silent about the whole issue and so is the Congress
Left has softened its stand on the Nuclear agreement with the Center allowing informal talks with the IAEA without disrupting the government,
Center gives a clean chit to CPM and the chief-minister  on Nandigram violence.

Conclusion [...]

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