Indian bashing in Aussie Land

There has been a lot of news lately about bashing Indians who are going to school in Australia. It started with a trickle, and soon the media here caught on the frenzy and started making it the top headline story. While the media is not wrong in talking about these incidents, it has completely gone [...]

a new Negro

Rosa Parks was not the first person to protest the segregation on the bus. Martin Luther King was not the first to lead boycotts and protests for equal rights for the american negro. But what started as a quite but firm refusal to get up and give her seat up, and move to the back [...]

November 04, 2008

Today America votes, after almost eight years of torture by a person whose most stupendous ability is to mangle any and every english sentence or phrase he uses. It has been a day that one half of America was waiting holding every breath, so that they could live to see it. A day when the [...]

‘Fair Hearing’ – not for all ?

I first came to know about Mumia Abu Jamal in 1997. A rock band was performing in New York City, a weekend in the summer of ’97, and they were calling for the release of Mumia. I was working in Fort Lee, NJ, just outside the George Washington Bridge that goes into NYC. Those days, [...]

Blood Religion

Yesterday i was asked by my colleague, about an article he read in The Washinton Post, about the post-Independence violence between the hindus and muslims, as a side-effect of the partition. It was not an easy question to answer. I know it happened, few things that caused it, and how it was not controlled or [...]

Whitie on the moon by Gil Scott Heron

A rat done bit my sister Nel with Whitie on the moon Her face and arm began to swell and Whitie’s on the moon I can’t pay no doctor bills while Whitie’s on the moon 10 years from now, I’ll be payin’ still with Whitie on the moon You know the man just upped my [...]