Category: Current Affairs

Crisis in Darfur – Who will bell the cat?

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on the crisis in Darfur quoted in Guernica, June 2008: …I was there (in Darfur)…just one year ago nearly to the day, smuggling myself across the border with Chad, crossing 500, 600 kilometers of...

Call Centre Romeos and Hindu Fundamentalists

If you are wondering about the link between the two, it is AIDS ! Apparently, Call Centre “Romeos” are one of the leading reasons for increasing AIDS in India. And Hindu fundamentalists are indirectly helping...

Bend over backwards…

in other words… “try very hard to please someone“. New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI) Railway Minister Lalu Prasad today instructed authorities to install signboards in Urdu at the Old Delhi railway station so that...

Some links for weekend reading – IV

On Bal Thackeray and his call for Hindu suicide squads/ Hindu terrorists: Nip it in the bud by Offstumped. A short excerpt: Bal Thackeray�s remarks are reprehensible. There is no moral sanction for Terrorism...