By Vinay:
Last year Omar Abdullah made a passionate speech in the Parliament and won many hearts. The occasion was the Parliamentary debate during Vote of Confidence, which was moved against the UPA by the opposition and the Left parties in the wake of Indo-US nuclear deal. He said then that Kashmiris faced same problems as [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 31, 2009
Omar and the Bad Omens
July 30, 2009
Text of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Speech in the Parliament Reiterating India’s Stance Taken During NAM Summit at Sharm-Al-Sheikh in Delinking Talks From Terrorism While Dealing With Pakistan
Madam Speaker,
As I have said many times before, we cannot wish away the fact that Pakistan is our neighbour. We should be good neighbours. If we live in peace, as good neighbours do, both of us can focus our energies on the many problems – our abject poverty that confront millions and millions of people [...]
July 28, 2009
Responsibilty to protect (R2P) – Do We Really Need This?
When in 1994 a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by Hutu militia in Rwanda; when in mid 1970s two million Cambodians were eliminated from the face of the earth by the Pol Pot regime; the world was deafeningly silent and did nothing then and after.
Rwanda lost 20% of its population within a span [...]
July 28, 2009
Mamatha Banerjee and the Land Acquisition Bill
In 1858, General Hugh Rose standing in front of a corpse paid high tributes to his enemy; he said ‘here lay the woman who was the only man among the rebels’.
July 27, 2009
Kalam Effect
By Vinay:
After the serial ‘salaam’ing of Mr. kalam for being silent on the issue of getting frisked and the serial slamming of the Continental Airlines for frisking him, it seems many netas are still not satisfied.
One young neta from Orissa has come up with a solution; that not 31 but only 3+1 should be exempt [...]
