Bad Militants…
Look at the news-reports below. Notice anything strange (hint: look at the words in bold)? Body of major killed in Kashmir brought to Gujarat Ahmedabad: Body of a major from Gujarat who was killed...
Category: Human Rights and Legal Issues
Remembering Tiananmen and the “Tank Man”
Twenty years ago on this day, a young unknown Chinese man became “immortal”. He was the “Tank Man”. On 5th of June 1989, he became a symbol of one man’s conviction and courage against...
A rethink on majority and minorities…
This post was prompted by an exchange sometime ago on the Freedom Team of India google groups on the subject of “minority protection“. As we get into the final stages of 2009 Lok Sabha...
“The City that Ended Hunger” – A friday feel-good story
Excerpts from an extraordinary account of how determined efforts…can solve seemingly intractable problems (Thanks to Sanjay Anandaram for alerting me to this). Emphasis has been added by me. *** The City that Ended Hunger...
The demise of “Pashtunwali”…
Has the much-vaunted Pashtun tradition fallen by the wayside in the face of Taliban (pl. see last sentence of the extract below)? From a report in The Hindu (dt Apr 30 ’09): …Islamabad (PTI): Taliban militants have...
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