UK fashion chain withdraws “Swastika” bag
An alert (and loyal) reader pointed this story to me: Zara withdraws swastika handbags. From the BBC website: The fashion chain Zara has withdrawn a handbag from its stores after a customer pointed out...
|| Satyameva Jayate || Blog
If you thought banning a “tilak” was funny, think again
Most of you must have read about the “tilak” controversy in Bihar from a few days ago. Yesterday, an alert reader sent me this snippet from thelondonpaper*: A Heathrow worker was today fighting to...
Comrades-in-arms: UPA & Pakistani “militants”
Most of you must have already read about the clumsy handling of the SethuSamudram affidavit by UPA last week. But this particular post on the issue caught my eye. In “The Ramayana, the Sethusamudram...
Politics & Corruption: Here’s how to “fix the system”
Or more accurately, how to begin fixing the system. Some of you may have read my recent comments (here and here) in which I mentioned about writing a post on corruption. Two days ago,...
Good news and bad news..
Fellow observers of nascent efforts at reforming the political system in India might have already read about some important news from the past few days. It is a mix of good and bad (in my...
Recent Comments