A “Namaste” may be your safest bet
Some of you probably read a recent report which suggested that a handshake can apparently be more infectious than a kiss! If you think this is some kind of a new year’s joke, read...
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On Narendra Modi and being a Hindu
Extracts from Shri B Raman’a article in the recent edition of Outlook (Dec 24 ’07), “The Secular Hypocrisy“: *** …The pathological dislike–even hatred–that some of our journalists–particularly in the electronic media–have for Modi could�...
From the tragedy, some unsavoury truths
Below, a collection of short excerpts from various reports and analyses following the tragic assasination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. *** From M. A. Muqtedar Khan’s (Associate professor and director of Islamic Studies, University of...
What has Asia go to do with Sudan and UK?
An alert reader sent me this great example of politically perfect reporting (emphasis mine): Police are investigating a racially motivated act of vandalism which was linked to the case of the British teacher who...
Democracy in Pakistan? You must be joking!
Came across this superb tongue-in-cheek post by Mark Anderson: The Pakistan Play. Excerpts (emphasis mine): “Let’s see if I have this right. Every country in the Middle East (except Israel) is a dictatorship, specifically...
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