Category Archives: Politics
Rumsfield Resigns and President Bush Pledges to Work With Democrats Again
Yes, that is the headline that the New York Times is leading with tonight. I never thought that I’d see that headline, or if I did, it would include a couple of more sentences, like the pigs are flying, and Rush Limbaugh is off his drugs. But no, the impossible has happened and the voters [...]
The Muck Stops Here!
If you are a keen observer of politics like I am and if you’ve seen political campaigns in India, specially in the Hindi belt, you know how dirty the election campaigns can get. But even I am surprised at the muckraking, the dirt, the under-the-belt attacks that have taken place in this election campaign in [...]
Is Islam A Peaceful Religion?
Is Islam a peaceful religion? Is it a violent one? Does Quran teach violence? Does it teach love and peace? Are all Muslims violent? Are some of them violent while a majority of them just wants to live peaceful lives? Questions like these and many more have been asked many times over, specially in the [...]
Indra Nooyi’s Graduation Remarks
Good evening, everyone. Dean Hubbard, distinguished faculty, honored graduates, relieved parents, family, and friends, it’s a distinct pleasure to be in New York City this evening to celebrate the biggest milestone to date in the lives of you, the young men and women before us: your graduation from Columbia University Business School. It may surprise [...]
Global Warming: The US, India and Gandhi
Global warming activists have been hitting all the right notes lately. There’s the Al Gore Movie, An Inconvenient Truth, there’s the report by the National Academy of Sciences that the earth is at its warmest in centuries and James Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Department [...]
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