MMS Speech

Below is the speech, our mumbling Prime Minister, MMS, made in the Parliament two days after India’s 65th Independence Day. I have officially named him as ‘mumbler on the roof’, as an ode to Nero. So while average Indias are boiling in anger, our mumbler on the roof, chooses to make mumbling speeches and statements. [...]

Anna, Hazaar!

I am sitting here in the US, far away from the action in India. But my heart is somewhere else. People are out in huge numbers in Delhi and all other major cities and towns in India. ‘I am Anna Hazare’, is not just an expression of words, but a mirror to the hopes and [...]

Ayodhya Bench Decision

Allahabad High Court Judgment Decision of Special Full Bench hearing Ayodhya Matters Date of Judgment :- 30.9.2010 Panel of Judges Hon’ble Sibghat Ullah Khan ,J. Hon’ble Sudhir Agarwal, J. Hon’ble Dharam Veer Sharma, J. Case Details 1. Other Original Suit No. 1 of 1989 Gopal Singh Visharad (Now Dead) & Others Vs. Zahoor Ahmad & [...]

What were we thinking?

The planners and masters that run the government were hard at work for the last many months, in try to get the Nuclear Liability Bill passed. But unfortunately they had a series of mishaps that resulted in a circus, exposing the real workings of a democracy. A government of some people, by some people, for [...]

Obama – a case of bad holding ?

From the movie, The President, a dialogue delivered by Micheal Douglas, “I was too busy worrying about losing my job, that I forgot to do my job”.
My advice to Obama, i would respect you a thousand times more, if you did the right thing, than to worry about winning the election the next term. I might end up voting you back to power.

Telangana – a divided Andhra Pradesh

I am not a telugu and am not from coastal, rayalseema or telangana, in fact i am not from Andra Pradesh. But i am Indian and i think i want to have a say in these matters. This is unfortunate, to start with, and completely shameful, to say the least. The way in which the [...]

Indira Gandhi – 1917 – 1984

October 31st, came and went quietly, this year. The paper reminded me about the gruesome assassination that took place exactly 25 years ago. 31st Oct 1984, would have been just another day in history, but for the actions of two body guards, who though sworn to fulfill their duty to protect, chose to kill instead. [...]

victims of ‘rape’

The last couple of days, comments from an Congress politician in India, caused a furor there, resulting in an arrest and the usual filing of charges for defamatory speeches. It was uttered by one woman to another, about a crime that is peculiarly hurting to women only, ‘rape’. Taking a dig at the compensation being [...]

Obituary: Velupillai Prabhakaran

There is an old indian proverb, transliterated here in tamil, it reads, “Amritham adhigam annalum, visham agum”, meaning that ‘Amrit’, the life giving potion discovered or created by the gods, can become posion if consumed in excess. Ironic it would seem, but very appropriate here. What started out as a fight for a good cause, [...]

Patrolling the Blue Seas

The recent spate of piracy of the coast of Somalia was surely adding to the nuisance value, given that everyone would think that this is an easy problem to solve. However, given the reluctance of the different navies around the world, it is more than a simple case of sending a warship to shoo the [...]