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W’end Links: White Tiger, Road Safety and the Loony Fringe

First this weekend, a post by Sandeep in which he explains why Aravind Adiga’s “White Tiger” is award-winning India-bashing.  To Sandeep’s analysis, I would add this nugget (Hat Tip: Sh Kak; emphasis mine) Michael Portillo, chairman of...

A dangerous portent

Some of you must have read the news from two days ago regarding a call by some Muslim leaders to form a “Muslim political front“  that would also align “secular forces”. Quite how a religious...

Sujalam, Suphalam*…and yet…

Here is a grim and sad reminder of Bharat’s under-development and how poor governance, bad policies and corruption have conspired to turn a land praised by Bankim Chandra as “सुजलां सुफलां…”into a country with “alarming” levels of...

This is really scary news…

…for India. Picked this up y’day morning…(Courtesy Paul Kedrosky) ” Pakistan, The Land That Financial Bad News Forgot: Part II“.  The really scary bit is towards the end…(in bold – emphasis mine): Given all...