This Nation is about to issue two blank cheques. If rumors are to be believed, the ouster of Sachin Pilot is being quietly encouraged by Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi behind the scenes. I hope the Congress does not break up further. I am no supporter, but I fear the idea of one party, majority rule…
A Trumpian escape for Indian students in the US!
YEAH! One more thoughtless, mindless, brainless Trump rule rescinded! Caused a lot of tension and heartburn to students just to please his base. The idiot man keeps saying and doing things that he has to walk back. I hope the electorate too walks back their decision to elect him President and kicks him out unceremoniously…
The law itself has been encountered!
Why do we need courts and judges in this country? Why do we need the law and due process and the rule of law? Why not let the police shoot criminals as soon as they catch them? Why not dispense with words like democracy and fairness and justice? I know people will say ‘Good riddance,…
Pay for hurting people!
When you find yourself in a prolonged spell of hardship or sorrow in life, stop cursing your luck and asking ‘Why me’? Instead, examine your deeds of the past and ask yourself whether you have knowingly and wantonly troubled or hurt someone by your actions or words. And if you have, confess, at least to…
Novel way to reduce burden on children!
This way ‘to reduce the burden on children’ is more novel than the novel Corona virus itself!!!! I hope that it lasts only till a Covid vaccine or cure is found. But….. https://www.ndtv.com/education/cbse-removes-chapters-on-federalism-citizenship-secularism-from-political-science-syllabus?fbclid=IwAR1_TSRaMHbveDQrfLVM_Fb-LuWYcDKQINJi-tpXesXMIBbkU-31nU_Jaos
Real investigation or election jhumla?
Well, the timing of this investigation is more than a bit suspect, but welcome nonetheless. Let’s see where this goes – just another jumla before the Bihar election or this one turns up something concrete. 6 years and nothing has happened to the Gandhis. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/mha-orders-probe-into-rajiv-gandhi-foundation/articleshow/76847850.cms?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=TOIMobile
Thumping our chests for nothing we did!
We Indians immediately thump our chests and become ‘proud to be an Indian’ whenever people like Sundar Pichai or Satya Nadella make it in other countries, as though all 1.3 billion of us are collectively responsible for their rise from mediocrity to eminence. Sorry to disappoint you, guys, but actually, their ‘Indianness’ has nothing to…
No, no home invasion!
To all my friends, relatives and acquaintances: I want to assure you all that the house I am staying in is completely secure and safe. No burglar has entered or has been able to take over or burglarize this house. The burglars had evil intentions, but the inhabitants of this house gave them a befitting…
How we insult women!
There are many things offensive in our Bollywood films but here are a couple that I find most obnoxious.One is the scene where a married woman dutifully touches the feet of her husband. I just hate those scenes, the bowed head and the pious look on the woman’s face, the expression of benign magnanimity on…
Nepotism and Bollywood!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-L_9__pqRc&feature=share Why all this fake outrage over nepotism in Bollywood? Nepotism, sycophancy, politics, conspiracy – these are the bane of the Indian psyche and society. It is the dominant factor in our personal, familial and professional lives. So, is it so surprising that it thrives in the environment that Bollywood provides, with all its…