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The great joke that is Indian media – part 2 *must read*

Thanks to Shadow Warrior on whose blog I first came across this extraordinary piece of reporting: “Who says Indian Media isn’t biased?“*about the mass conversion of Dalits into Buddhism last Sunday in Mumbai. After...

Wish our PM had said that…

Excerpts from a column by British PM Tony Blair in the Sunday Times recently (May 27, 2007) (emphasis mine): “The absconding of three people on control orders because of suspicion of their involvement in...

AIT and a sneak attack

Many of you must be familiar with how the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) is now all but dead We probably don’t need another nail in its coffin but here is one that I came...

A “broken” democracy…

Just came across this quote by Al Gore (asking people become more directly involved in climate change) in TIME Magazine*. You can pretty much say the same things about our political situation and governance…It...

A great model of good governance

I first heard about Sakshi through Geeta Gokhale of BPD (Thanks Geeta). What got me interested was this story about their latest “success” (below). After reading that, I decided to do some background research...