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NUCLEAR DEAL: DO YOU HAVE IT IN YOU MR ADVANI?
INDIA RETOLD | July 20th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
Mr Lal Krishna Advani, once you had shown to the nation a glimpse of your ability to rise above the ordinary, to take that leap from the murky world of India’s politicians to the respected realm of its statesmen. For that bold and healing action, y read more
ENDS AND MEANS: KILLING THE MAHATMA
INDIA RETOLD | July 18th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
“At the heart of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence, was his belief...that means and ends are inseparable, and that in fact the means themselves shape the ends. He believed unworthy means can never produce worthy ends.” These stirring read more
INDIAN POLITICS: IT'S KETTLES AND POTS AGAIN!
INDIA RETOLD | July 13th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
Political alliances in India have long ceased to surprise anyone. Cut through all the lofty talk of principles and values, and the sick pattern remains the same. Enemies become bosom pals overnight, ‘secularists’ become ‘communal’ and vice ve read more
LOOKING FOR INDIA'S OBAMA IN HARVARD!
INDIA RETOLD | June 22nd 2008 by Vinod Sharma
Barrack Hussein Obama’s vertical rise from nowhere to within striking distance of the White House has mesmerised the whole world and changed many unfavourable opinions about the US almost overnight across the globe.It was a little more than three y read more
Rebutting Indian fiction of “Democracy”: Indian Dynastic “D…
PAKBLOGSPHERE.COM | June 14th 2008 by Moin Ansari
PLUTOCRATIC KLEPTOCRACY EQUALS DYNASTIC MOBOCRACY Is Indian Dynastic “Democracy” a Plutocratic Kleptocracy? : Rebutting the fiction of “Democracy” Is the ”land of the Ganges” the epitome of democracy, or is i read more
Democratic princess!
Blog of Cyber Brahma | June 9th 2008 by S.K
Here is a news item in today’s Hindustan Times, a national daily from Delhi, India: Two grilled or driving close to Priyanka’s motorcade POLICE INTERROGATED two young men for over three hours when they accidentally drove close to the con read more
CORRUPT, COLONIAL INDIA FACES VOLCANO
INDIA RETOLD | May 13th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
“I am quite sure that no new order can be built up in India so long as the spirit of the ICS pervades our administration and our public services...Therefore it seems essential that the ICS and similar services must disappear completely as such bef read more
CHINA AND INDIA: BULLY AND FOREVER BULLIED.
INDIA RETOLD | April 15th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
Children take part in a week-long military training before they enter primary school at a kindergarten in China's Tianjin municipality. Source: The Times of India-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jus read more
THE 'CLEANSING' BATTLE FOR DELHI BEGINS.
INDIA RETOLD | April 8th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
The knives are out and the battle has now truly been joined in UP.The rumblings had started some months back, after the Congress was badly mauled in the state elections that followed the one in UP last year. The bravado of dumping Mulayam Yadav’s S read more
THE VORTEX OF COMPETITIVE PANDERING
INDIA RETOLD | March 7th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
The Prime Minister questions whether “ a multi-party model where parties with varying national reach and many with a limited sub-national reach is capable of providing the unity of purpose that nation states often have to demonstrate". He is distur read more
WHAT IS IT THAT INDIA HAS AND PAKISTAN DOESN'T?
INDIA RETOLD | March 1st 2008 by Vinod Sharma
When I started this blog, the only thing I was clear about was that it was not going to be one more of the numerous cut and paste jobs that crowd the net. I was not going to fill my space with what others had written elsewhere, adding perfunctory ana read more
WORKING OVERTIME TO FINISH DEMOCRACY
INDIA RETOLD | February 29th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
Yesterday, for the umpteenth time squared by as many, India’s parliamentarians stalled proceedings in Parliament. Like always, they rushed with aggressive intent to the well of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, shouted like drunk men in a se read more
POLITICIANS, CRICKETERS, CATTLE AND AUCTIONS
INDIA RETOLD | February 23rd 2008 by Vinod Sharma
The Indian Premier League (IPL), a Twenty20 cricket competition modeled on the lines of European club football, has already made the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) richer by close to $1.75 billion even before the first match has been pl read more
MAYAWATI: SPOILER OR SAVIOUR?
INDIA RETOLD | February 12th 2008 by Vinod Sharma
Mayawati’s hug of death is finally beginning to choke the Congress party. Before reading on, please carefully go through what I had written way back in August last year. In the post entitled "Mayawati’s Hug of Death”, I had then itself war read more
123 Nuclear Agreement – should the PM resign?
Song of the waves | October 23rd 2007 by Abraham Tharakan
To answer this question we must analyze who is against the 123 Nuclear Agreement between India and the US. Not the Congress, of course. It is fine with the other UPA constituents provided they don’t have to face an election right now. BJP mooted th read more
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