Category: Current Affairs

Open Thread to discuss Elections 2009

Hurried post starting with some highlights from the results/early indications of 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Left’s nationwide tally might be reduced to 25, scripts worst performance in West Bengal Lok Janshakti Party supremo and...

Quote of the week – On Apologies & such

PM Manmohan Singh quoted in The Pioneer*: The riots (of 1984) were painful, but cannot be kept alive for ever…   Some questions that come to mind: How long does it take to forget...

Did someone say it is “election season”?

Connect the dots. …The Interpol has removed the red-corner notice issued against Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman who is being sought in India  for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in...

On John Howard, LPG Cylinders and Hoax Emails – Part 1

Once upon a time, in the early days of the Internet, surfers implicitly “trusted”  information they found on the web - particularly information that appeared genuine, seemed like it had been properly referenced and sounded credible....