Category: Distortions, Misrepresentations about India

Of sound bites, Shilpa Shetty and Arunachal

Thanks to Vidhya for alerting me to this article by Shri Arun Shourie… It reiterates points that have been made by numerous commentators in the past… WE APPEAR TO BE SLEEPWALKING INTO A DISASTER...

A Valentine’s Day “fatwa”

Stumbled across this news today: “No love on Valentine’s Day, Sena on a rampage“ “… In Delhi, about a dozen Sena protesters briefly blocked a road early on Wednesday and burnt Valentine’s Day cards...

More on Nano…and blindspots – from Sheshabalaya

Ashutosh Sheshabalaya ,whom I quoted in my earlier post, has followed up with another brilliant piece of writing in The Globalist in which he talks about Nano and India’s impact on the larger global...

On Nano, global warming, India and China

Srinivas Bharadwaj, writing in rediff recently, made some great points about the “trashing” of Nano by some in the western media (“Why some US scribes slammed Tata Nano“, Jan 14 ’08) � Excerpts: “…Tata...