Category: India & Its Neighbours

Another fellow Indian in Forbes List

Unfortunately this is one list which does not stir any pride: Dawood 4th ‘most wanted’ criminal on Forbes list  🙁 Some believe naming and shaming the criminals and the countries that harbour them will help… Referring...

An eye-witness account of *militants* crossing into J&K

Courtesy Radha Rajan…enjoy. This afternoon one of the CNN-IBN news report is that over a 100 militants have ’slipped/slinked/sneaked’ into J&K . They may be heading towards Bandepura. I decided to take off to...

The great joke that is Indian media – Part V

This is�how an otherwise straightforward news-story gets distorted in reporting: From rediff, “Do TV serials promote the Hindu way of life?“�� “…The Afghanistan government has banned Indian television serials because they feel it wrongly...

India and China: Apples and Oranges

Many of you probably�read B Raman’s open letter to Aamir Khan in rediff recently. In the article Shri Raman made several points about why (and how) India and China are fundamentally different and how...

Now Thats What I call Music..sorry, *News*

From Monday’s Telegraph (“Brahmaputra jitters from China project“): “…Hints have emerged from China that it may be gearing for a project on the Brahmaputra that threatens drought in India’s Northeast, environment experts and Indian officials...