When the elections were held in AP in April-May not many - barring the NDTV - had predicted such a landslide victory for the Congress and YS Rajashekhara Reddy.  Nor for that matter none expected that in less than four months there'd be a succession battle in AP - following the death of YSR.  Obviously the supporters of YSR - in the throes of ( Read more... )

No, it's not Pakistan I'm accusing of being graceless.  It's India and us Indians who have proved to be absolutely disgraceful in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Mumbai ( Read more... )

 I believe it was a calculated move by Jaya.  To speak about her UP and Hindi.. She was well aware of the backlash caused by Amitabh's utterances earlier.  And, I for one moment do NOT believe that her comment was spontaneous.  No Sir.

She surely was baiting Raj Thackeray (what's the spelling anyways?).  She knew he would react.  And, react he did ( Read more... )

Tuestday, 22 July ( Read more... )

The New Political Swayam-var is ON!  And, BIG TIME!  It's probably the BIGGEST in a VERY long time.  Maya is the new bride.  She's the NEW princess of the Indian Empire.  She's bigger than even the historical femme fatales who launched thousand ships, arrows and resulted in many a broken bows and hearts - Padmini, Razia Sultan et al.

And, she could ( Read more... )

 
Kashmir's burning and for a change it's national news again. Unfortunately this time the controversy sure is going to have serious ramifications within the country and CAN see a further polarisation of the two religions. All thanks to the pesky Amarnath Controversy.

Before I'd delve on my opinion on the controversy itself, I'd want to talk about ( Read more... )

(Wrote this last night but couldn't post it to the journal as my net was misbehaving)

"Just a second Sudhir" JS asked me to stop as I tried to move from MSN.com to google. "Benazir Bhutto" he said. "Yeah, I can see there's her picture". Inside I thought, "Big deal huh". But as I read the caption that accompanied her picture my heart skipped a beat ( Read more... )

“Who is Pratibha Patil?” asked my colleague. “Is she related to Shivraj Patil? Is she his wife?” as the news channels flashed the ‘Breaking News’ of her being nominated as the consensus candidate of the UPA for the post of President. That seems to be the level of knowledge about the (possible) incumbent President of India - though Ms. Patil is ( Read more... )