Dec 8 2007
The BBC is glad that South Africa’s crime rate is dropping. The BBC correspondent in Johannesburg, Peter Biles is anxious to see rape, murder and armed-robberies reduce there. And who runs the BBC? Oops, the same people who have led to South...
Dec 8 2007
I repeat, The Count your master’s known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed At starting is my object. My Last Duchess These lines tell us...
Dec 7 2007
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W....
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Dec 7 2007
When everyone and every institution have failed to cater to the people of India, only the judiciary has time and again saved us. Now the judiciary faces some of the toughest challenges ever. The UK Telegraph forecasts a gloomy future for the Indian...
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Dec 7 2007
The Times of India has a unique view about our rising mob violence. It cites the Salwa Judum or people’s militia in Chhattisgarh, the Islamic fundamentalists baying for Taslima Nasreen’s blood in Kolkata and the lynch mob in Assam who...
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Dec 6 2007
The Allies in Afghanistan do not understand that no amount of bombing will do away with the Taliban. Ideologies cannot be destroyed by the military. The UK Telegraph reports the imminent fall of Musa Qala in north of Helmand province. NATO has even...
Dec 6 2007
Indians love the USA more than their own country. Where there is a growing demand for illegally entering the USA, supply parameters will automatically come into place. The Times of India reports a Jet airhostess, Aliya Abbas Rizvi, has been caught...
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Dec 5 2007
Sherlock Holmes often lamented to Watson that more wives murdered their husbands than one would want to reckon. Marriage, after all provoked the strangest passions. A $300 million hedge-fund manager, a Manhattan dandy with offices in Park Avenue has...
Dec 5 2007
BBC News is trying to get one back at the old British colonies by making a joke out of Mrs. Gillian Gibbon’s arrest for calling a teddy-bear Mohammed. It sees Sudan giving a bloody nose to the UK while becoming red in the face from defeat. The...
Dec 3 2007
Pope Benedict XVI has released his second encyclical for the Catholic faithful. Being a scholar, Benedict’s message to the world is more abstract than the last Pope John II’s teachings. ABC News reports the Popes concern with Marxism....