More on MiGs…
‘MIGs to be replaced with MRCs gradually’ [ Monday, January 30, 2006 02:03:27 pm PTI ] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1392232.cms JAMMU: The Indian Air Force would phase out the MIG aircraft in a gradual manner and...
Category: Politics and Governance in India
“Rang De Basanti”, MiG-21s and arms lobbying…
Disappointed with Aamir Khan’s “Rang De Basanti” but for those of you who would like to know more of the story behind MiG-21s, unfortunately dubbed “flying coffins”, here are three links… Questions over safety...
Four Years, Two Attacks, One Story
See if you can spot anything unusual about these two newspaper reports: ******** Report A ******* �The two groups specifically held responsible by New Delhi were Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e- Mohammed. Pakistan vigorously denied the...
Secularism or Politics of Appeasement?
A few weeks ago, I read this comment by Natwar Singh which he made during a recent speech. “Secularism in Western intellectual tradition has a clearly non-religious connotation while the Indian understanding, in contrast,...
Corruption in Public Life – Are we the only ones?
Recently, I came across this news-story in the International Herald Tribune titled, “Another Gilded Age of corruption”, by Frank Rich [International Herald Tribune, Sept 26th, ’05 Op-Ed Page] In this highly readable article Frank...
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