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US soldiers are celebrating Thanksgiving in Afghanistan and this has made international news. The Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross had lost his legs to landmines, and his plight is making headlines simultaneously. Both stories are...
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There is yet hope for India. A nation does not become a superpower by money and infrastructure alone. There have to be leaders who are fearless in speaking the truth, who care nothing for the opinions of the hypocritical many who serve a government as...
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Pakistan is cornered. And she thinks India is to be blamed for the Commonwealth nations’ dalliance with the idea of suspending Pakistan from the group. The Commonwealth wants Pakistan out because of the ongoing Emergency there. The commonwealth...
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We are blaming our own government for donating only $1m to cyclone hit Bangladesh. Times of India has pointed out that India could have done so much more for the poor cyclone-Sidr hit Bangladeshis. Also this very popular paper reports India’s...
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Karl Marx had long ago pointed out how there is nothing called idealism. Everything runs on the cogs of money. Every struggle is between those who have money and those who don’t. At one level, Bush is in Iraq because he does not have oil. Now...
Why is it that we love to hear about the fall of Churchmen? And why is it that we hide it behind grave concerns about the victims? Ironically, in such news items the focus is always on the perpetrator of abuse and the victims are mentioned as...
Joseph Conrad in his classic Heart of Darkness once and for all showed how Africa will always be the focus of colonial exploitation. First it was Europe, now it is Russia and China. They do not care for the people but only the oil and gas there.
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Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences wants to see India as a knowledge-power house and so was there a CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) meet and gushes about knowledge including the awardees like Bharti Airtel, Eureka...
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Charles Dickens had continuously written about the plight of the English children in many of his novels. Little Oliver Twist in the novel Oliver Twist was routinely abused for asking for just another helping of watery porridge from the warden of the...
A nation which hates its own sons is lost. And we are not talking of any ordinary person, but of the legendary Imran Khan. A few years ago the whole of Pakistan went gaga over this man’s cricketing. Now Pakistanis are mute spectators when...
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