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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 [...]

The World According to Azim Premji

I stumbled across this month old article in Stanford Alumni magazine. I imagined that a lot of blogs would have linked to the article but a technorati search yielded only 5 total hits (and only 3 relevant ones) – so I decided to link it here, definitely worth a read. Premji, as many of you [...]

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Watched Al Brooks on Letterman tonight describing his experience in India and Pakistan as he was filming his latest movie – Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Can’t wait to watch it.

Shalom for Sharon

In his illness, Ariel Sharon brings together and exposes the two extremists from two different religions as if to show that regardless of religion, the language that religious extremists speak remains the same – of hatred. “He was dividing God’s land. And I would say, ‘Woe unto any Prime Minister of Israel who takes a [...]

The Communist Manifesto

The hypocrisy is unbelievable, the pathos staggering. If it were not for the fact the main player in this Orwellian drama is one of the parties that holds a vice like grip over Indian polity we could have just laughed it away – as it stands now it is anything but a laughing matter because [...]