Category: Identity

I can’t get a job in Mumbai anymore

This is beyond being “funny” “…(Maharashtra) state Finance Minister Jayant Patil…announced in the state legislative assembly that 80 per cent jobs in companies that will now open units in Maharashtra must go to locals....

I’m not an “Asian”

Fellow blogger Pastorius posted this great piece over at the Infidel Blogger’s Alliance. It touches on euphemisms and “media labels” regarding Asians, something on which I have commented before. Excerpt: “…There is a group...

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�...

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,...

Faith & Identity…

Last December (’05) during an interview on GMTV’s Sunday Programme, Lord Carey of Clifton (Dr Williams’s predecessor as the Archbishop of Canterbury – the highest position in the Church of England, similar to the...