Why am I not a Politician?

Not that I could be a better one than the Thackearys or Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav, but I often think why I deprived this nation of the best leader it could ever have. Well, the reason is initially I was inclined not to. But, somewhere down the line, I just started understanding too much. And [...]

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The King Maker

The King Maker, originally uploaded by bookcrazyword.
One of the first clicks from my Nikon D-40X. I love this one for the symbolism. It’s always true – there is always a king mover, if not a king maker.

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We Need to Touch the Rock Bottom

Every time the Supreme Court or one of our High Courts decides to enter the social or political arena from their regular habitat at the jurisprudential or legal ones, we cheer them for what is now commonly known as ‘Judicial Activism’. Be it Justice Krishna Iyer, Bhagwati, the one-man green bench Kuldip Singh or some [...]

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In Praise of Tehelka

 
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People say it’s the age of ‘media’. The very fact that a simple blog with articles ranging in interest from movies to hardcore social critique being written by a handful of non-experts has an enviable readership of its own (reference to mutiny.in) is a testimonial to this claim. However, not [...]

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A thought for the those who get swayed by politicians

    Charles Mingus in his song Don’t Let it Happen Here :
    One day they came and they took the Communists
    And I said nothing because I was not a Communist
    Then one day they came and they took the people of the Jewish faith
    And I said nothing because I had no faith left
    [...]

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Raj Thackeray and I

If only someone told them (the very few who actually agree with the Thackeray clan of Politics) that Bombay is not a Well of Money waiting for the inhabitants to draw from it. This is a city with oppurtunities like many others. Wealth here needs to be created. What seems like a well of money [...]

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Sucking up to Modi

 They say, in a democracy, you get what you deserve. Most pertinent then is to ask if we deserve Modi. Twice in a row, the mastermind behind one of the most shameful act of genocide has been elected by the people of Gujarat as their leader. This gives rise to two questions – if democracy [...]

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Mooting Democracy

“For all men cling to justice of some kind, but their conceptions are imperfect and they do not express the whole idea.”
We reached moon. So have our ideas – our ability to think, to visualize, to debate and to arrive at new original principles. Today, the fastest means of communications exist. We can talk to [...]

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An Insult to Secularism

A man named Dr. Praveen Bhai Togadia intended to speak at a public function in Mangalore on 13th March 2003 and did. Not many people might have noticed it, but the saviors of secularism did not think so. Mere announcement of the proposed speech gave sleepless nights to the state machinery.
It is said that the [...]

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