Monthly Archive: May 2009

On Taliban, English education and Pakistani hypocrisy

Stumbled on this very interesting post by Abbas Zaidi yesterday: Taliban’s hypocrisy is in fact Pakistan’s national trait. Brief excerpts follow. Please note that emphasis (bold) has been added by me. *** Excerpts from...

One Planet, Two Worlds…

From a CNN report (May 10 ’09): Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence. Arab News…reported that Judge Hamad...

Kaun Banega Crorepati?*

Anil Bairwal of ADR released their “Updated Analysis of Lok Sabha MPs” – Criminal, Financial,Educational Background yesterday in which I found this nugget of information: Total number of crorepati MPs in the present Lok...

Question of the Week

From a pre-election interview with Priyanka Gandhi in Outlook (Issue dt. May 11 ’09) by Sheela Reddy (emphasis mine): Why is politics not drawing you? Politics does not draw me because I’ve been through...