Monthly Archive: November 2010

The real story behind “Adarsh”

Excerpts from “The media has misled us on the Adarsh scam” by Carl H. Gomes, courtesy VigilOnline: The “housing for widows of the “martyrs” of Kargil” is a media creation because the scheme was...

On neo-feudalism, Baba-log and dynasty politics

This post was prompted by Tavleen Singh’s recent article in the Indian Express titled, “We live in neo-feudal times“. In the article she wrote (emphasis added): Handing parliamentary constituencies down in the family is...

So it was not about “Kashmiriyat”?

The majority of our people are Muslims. How can we not talk of Islam? I can’t help wondering – what happened to the famed “Kashmiriyat”? Source: Interview of Syed Ali Shah Geelani by Kaveree...

*Shubh Deepavali* || शुभ दीपावली ||

|| ॐ || असतो मा सदगमय | तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय || मृत्योर् मा अमृतं गमय | ॐ शांति शांति शांति || Asato maa Sat gamaya, Tamaso maa Jyotir gamaya Mrityor maa Amritam gamaya, Om...

This Diwali, bring some colour into someone’s life…

…NOT by giving to charity – or donating. But by investing in and helping, a hard-working woman earn a livelihood, live with dignity and get prosperous. This is a brief story about RangDe…Some –...