AIDS’ first casualty in India: Truth
A few days ago, I came across the BBC new story on why the numbers for AIDS patients in India may be an overestimate: India ‘overestimates’ HIV/Aids” (Wednesday, 13 December 2006). The study suggested...
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India vs. Bharat
Very worrying article about how the rural-urban divide seems to be widening in India/ Bharat. The other notable point is how rural, backward, under-developed parts of the country are now routinely labelled as “Bharat”....
Of Bangalore, Bengaluru and Fractured Identities…
A few days ago, I got into a passionate debate about the merits of the name change of Bangalore to Bengaluru with a few friends.� They were arguing that this was a populist measure,...
Of Stars and Martyrs, Munnabhai vs. Manish Pitambare
Yesterday, I received this truly saddening email about of a brave army officer who laid his life down in an encounter with Hizbul Mujahideen’s most wanted terrorist. Truly saddening…and a disgusting commentary on the...
Would “Gandhi…have become an asterisk of history rather than an icon”?
Peter Worthington wrote a great piece in the Toronto Sun last week titled, “War cannot be waged ‘peacefully’”. Excerpts: “Want to know why we (meaning the West) won’t win the war on terror?… The...
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