Entries from June 2006

June 29, 2006

Really lousy Metaphors to make a Point!!

Mr RajaMohan in his editorial column in the Indian Express dated June 29th, 2006 has come up with the following gem to comprehend India’s new found Global clout and the reactions to it within India.

The real problem lies in the emergence of two world views in India — speaking metaphorically — one of the “bania” [...]

June 28, 2006

The Rakhi Sawant Controversy and the attack of the Liberalist Clowns

Rakhi Sawant has almost monopolised all the controversies from tinsel town of late. She had a case booked against her for obscenity by the Police in Kolhapur, Maharashtra and before that could die down she got involved in another one with that Party smooching thing with Mika. She is also reportedly been banned in Dubai [...]

June 25, 2006

British Army demotes Goat for Indiscipline

LONDON, England (AP) — A British army regiment’s ceremonial pet goat was demoted in disgrace after it marched out of line before a host of international dignitaries during a parade to mark Queen’s Elizabeth II’s birthday, a military spokesman said Saturday.
The military mascot, a 6-year-old male goat called Billy, was downgraded from the rank of [...]

June 24, 2006

China’s “Democratic” Parties

I was quite surprised to come across this piece in Xinhua. contrary to common perception the Communist party is not the sole political party in existence in China. There are 8 other parties which are officialy recognised and “allowed” to participate in the political process in China. These 8 parties are called as China’s “Democratic” [...]

June 23, 2006

Nepal: Teetering on the Brink of disaster

Nepal is in big trouble. Just like the Weimar republic paved the way for Hitler and the Nazis to take over Germany in the 1930s, The present ragtag “caretaker” SPA dispensation is paving the way for Prachanda and his band of Maoist thugs to finally take over Nepal.
The SPA(Seven party Alliance) had very foolishly back [...]

June 22, 2006

America: A Victim of Child Abuse

This piece by The Onion had me in splits . It traces the early formative years of the United States to “prove” that America was a victim of child abuse.
According to a team of leading historians and psychiatrists who issued a report Wednesday “The United States was likely the victim of abuse by [...]

June 20, 2006

RSS Newsfeeds for Dummies

To start with this RSS has got nothing to do with that RSS . This RSS is called the Rich Site Summary or the Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary and the latest version is RSS 2.0.
RSS is primarily useful to collect one’s favourite newsfeeds from different websites and present it at one [...]

June 19, 2006

IAF pilots are on bench says the BBC

The BBC in its latest “revelation” claims that the IAF lacks enough planes and has hence put a lot of pilots on bench.
How did the Beeb come to know of this?
“Classified documents seen by the BBC show that in all about a third of the IAF’s 2,500 pilots have been assigned ground and administrative duties.Of [...]

June 18, 2006

Fanaa: It all makes sense now

I saw Fanaa at last(on a pirated DVD ofcourse) and now i think i know why Aamir khan did what he did. It is a very pathetic movie, very much in the class of the B-class potboilers that come and go in their hundreds every year without anyone even noticing until one sees the Filmfare [...]

June 18, 2006

Shashi Tharoor on Indian Nationalism

Shashi Tharoor, currently the UN Under secretary General for communications & Public information and India’s Nominee for the post of UN secretary General has given a excellent analysis about Indian Nationalism in his writings. But a lecture he had given on 12th November 2005 at St Stephen’s college, Delhi during its 125th Anniversary celebrations brings [...]