Wish our PM had said that…
Excerpts from a column by British PM Tony Blair in the Sunday Times recently (May 27, 2007) (emphasis mine): “The absconding of three people on control orders because of suspicion of their involvement in...
Category: Politics of Minority Appeasement
The great joke that is Indian media…
Read this George Orwell-esque newsreport this morning (from IBN Live, “Clash in Gujarat over Osama posters“): “…Fifteen people, including three police personnel, were injured when members of a community clashed with the police after...
Of Patna and Azimabad…
A recent article by Shachi Rairikar commenting on Lalu Yadav’s demand for renaming Patna as Azimabad reminded me of one of my earlier posts about name changes and the question of identity: “Of Bangalore, Bengaluru and...
Want a job in Railways? Apply as a Muslim…
Our honourable Railways Minister Shri Yadav made the headlines again last week with his promise that “priority would be given to Muslims in appointments in all sectors of the Railways.” Now thats a great...
Time to nail the Muslim backwardness myth?
From a front page story in “The Economic Times” today (Apr 5, ’07) titled, “Hindu, Muslim equal in income”*: “Forget all half-baked opinions you may have heard on the economic state of religious communities...
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