Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw (April 3, 1914- June 27, 2008 ) who engineered one of India’s greatest victories on the battlefield in a thousand and half years during the 1971 war is no more.He passed away at the military hospital at Wellington in the early hours of June 27, 2008 after battling an acute illness. [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 21, 2008
Qadhafi: Obama suffers from inferiority complex
Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi: Obama Suffers Inferiority Complex That Might Make Him Behave “Whiter Than the White.” He Should Be Proud of His African, Muslim Identity.
June 21, 2008
Lebanese “terrorist bread” Restaurant
A sandwich can Kill You
Reporter: This is not a military post. Rather, it is a fast-food restaurant in the southern suburb of Beirut. The name of the restaurant and its appearance make all the people passing by stop, but the dishes it serves are bound to make people stay longer Kalashnikov, RPG, [...]
June 19, 2008
B Raman Calls for a Boycott of the Chindu
Shri N.Ram, the toast of China’s communist clique
Shri N.Ram, the well-known Editor-in-Chief of “The Hindu” of Chennai, has been the toast of China for an article purported to have beenwritten by him refuting the allegations levelled by the Dalai Lama and his supporters regarding the events of March in Lhasa . The [...]
June 15, 2008
Good Ol’ Comic book heroes
Remember Indrajal Comics, Amar Chitra katha, Chandamama, Chacha Chaudary, and Tinkle? Their characters Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordon, Bahadur, Shikari Shambu, Suppandi and many others used to rule the roost in the Kids entertainment section before the advent of Cable TV in the 1990s. Now there are a dime a dozen cartoon channels running 24/7 [...]
June 15, 2008
Firefox Download Day
Mozilla is planning a BIG splash for its Firefox 3 on June 17th by attempting a Guinness world record of the largest number of downloads in a single day for any software. Nobody has yet said what is the current world record. but anyway it is a great opportunity to be a footnote in some [...]
June 15, 2008
The UPA Arrangement
A very apt comic to show the relationship between the Congress President and the Prime Minister.
June 12, 2008
China’s New Found “Openness”
China’s New Found “Openness”
Besides Tibet, two other important stories to watch while gauging Beijing’s newly discovered bent for openness and transparency are closely tied to the disaster in Sichuan. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has launched a probe into the disproportionately large number of schoolchildren who were killed when [...]
June 11, 2008
Defending India’s Space Assets
In an interview to Karan Thapar back in February, 2008 Gen Kapoor had put his faith in detecting any Chinese troop buildup in the Tibetan plateau on satellite surveillance.
Karan Thapar: Just a moment ago you mentioned that their infrastructure allows them to move troops very quickly. Recently the Indian Express reported that with the result [...]
