Category Archives: India-centric

Kashmir today!

Photo source: Hindustan Times.

Democratic princess!

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 convoy of Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra near Safdarjung’s tomb early Sunday. One of the Personal [...]

Terrorism and India

Rediff.com poses a very pertinent question, “Is terrorism becoming as common as a case of theft?” in its well-documented essay with an outrageous title, “In India, we don’t catch terrorists“!
Read the complete article by clicking on the link above. Sad reading indeed.

What price democracy?

Almost the whole of India is tottering in electricity crisis. There are reports of “power riots” in and around Delhi, the capital of india, according to Hindustan Times a leading newspaper from the capital:
People have had enough. Tired of long and frequent power cuts and false promises of improvement, people in the Capital and Gurgaon [...]

Hindustan or Caste-stan!

It is castestan aka Indian Union of castes - “IUC”, pronounced Yuck, avers Manas Chakravarty, in Hindustan Times.
Here is his eminently witty parody on the highly casteist 27% reservation for OBCs in India. (For folks from another part of the globe, India is a funny country where each group would perennially be clamouring for something [...]

Apathy of MPs to price rise

There is an all round increase in the price of essentials in India. But the Members of Parliament who are elected to represent the problems of the masses in parliament and try to alleviate their sufferings have shown scant interest in discussing the price rise.
The following is the excerpt from the editorial of Times of [...]

Chennai welcomes the Times of India

Yes. It is adieus to The (non)Hindu!
The time has come to part with an association which had assumed a second nature for me. The typical morning routine of a steaming cup of “ticoction” coffee in one hand and the The Hindu on the other. But it is all history.
There was a time The Hindu represented [...]