Category: Current/ Political Affairs
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AFTER TAJ WHAT?
Does anybody remember Hina Rabbani Khar? You mean Hina Khan the TV actress from Kashmir? No I mean Hina Khar the Pakistani politician. Public memory is short indeed. She was Pakistan’s Foreign Minister from February 2011 to March 2013. When at the relatively young age of 33 she came India calling the country sat up,…
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SOFT P*RN OR HARD NEWS?
Do we have a choice? Why not? When I did a short course in journalism about 40 years ago we were taught the importance of the headline, the lead in and the bait to hook the reader. Today it is called grabbing eyeballs, and at times the other ones, minus the eyes! If you, dear…
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CITIZENS UNITE AGAINST CITIZENSHIP ACT
Most civil society and human rights activists had fixed 19th December for a nationwide protest against the recently enacted Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Central Govt’s proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). Together they form a lethal combination, not just against the Minorities, but more so against the landless and undocumented poor that form…
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GANDHIJI’S SEVEN SISTERS
(A sequel to “Gandhiji’s Quest for Truth“) It’s done and dusted, Mahatma Gandhi’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary. So we may now conveniently forget him and return to our humdrum lives. After all, no less than the PM has pompously declared rural India to be Open Defecation Free (ODF)! What more can we expect of the Mahatma?…
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GANDHIJI’S QUEST FOR TRUTH
Truth seems to be at a premium today. One of the big two at the recent Houston Rally is known for what he calls “alternative facts”, a euphemism for blatant lies or disinformation. The other Howdy at Houston is often called Feku by his detractors. This again is a derogatory word for one who makes…