Category: Current Affairs

“Mob attack on Indians” – comments from DC

As a sequel to my earlier post, here are extracts from (selected) comments on this issue from the DesiCritics site *** CAUTION: LONG POST *** ****** #5 Klaus August 21, 2007 They are Asylum Seekers...

Saffron? Sorry, wrong colour

If “proof” was really needed on why the Left parties vetoed both the initial “nominees” from Congress for the post of President, here is Dr Karan Singh in an interview to the Indian Express...

“Why Print Newspapers Are Screwed”

Great analysis from Henry Blodget on why offline media’s days are numbered: Why Newspapers Are Screwed (also on Yahoo! – with The New York Times as an example) Essentially: Offline circulation continues to drop but content creations costs...

Quote of the Day

Tarik Jan, “a gentle-mannered scholar at Islamabad’s Institute of Policy Studies” quoted in TIME Magazine, “Pakistan: Divided by Faith” by Aryn Baker: “We [Muslims] were the legal rulers of India, and in 1857 the British...