Aug
8
Ban the Qur’an
August 8, 2007 | 10 Comments
This is funny.
Jul
18
Muslims in Denial of Collective Responsibility?
July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment
After reading( www.hindu.com/2007/07/17/stories/2007071755660800.htm ) Hasan Suroor in The Hindu dated Jul17, I remembered a laconic fable I read as a kid.
A wolf and a kid are drinking water from the same stream. The wolf upstream, the kid downstream. The wolf wants to savour the kid. So, he goes-
“Hey, why are you making my […]
Jul
10
Glasgow Bombing Attempt among Other Things
July 10, 2007 | 19 Comments
Let me first express my anger and dismay at the terrorist’s attempt.
Yet, There’s a huge flow of misinformation and blown up information out there. That seems to take even sensible people hostage.
Three or four related news came up very close-
1. Australia admitted that they invaded Iraq for oil- (crores of people were taken hostage […]
Jul
5
(Sigh!)
July 5, 2007 | 9 Comments
Allan Johnston is freed. BBC Editor’s blog has thanked everybody for their support, except Hamas- those who ensured the freedom.
Why am I not surprised?
This response of a Ghazan journalist is particularly appalling.
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Australia has been the first to admit that securing oil was the reason they participated in the genocide of the Iraqis.
Thank you for your […]
Jul
3
Media-II: Power and Weakness
July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(Probably) starting from the First World War, Media became a very important part of Politics. As a result of the Allied propaganda offensive, even the German population, towards the end of WW-I, started feeling that Germany waged the war, and it was unjustified in doing so. (I am supporting neither- just presenting what happened.)
Media started […]
Jun
30
Media-I: Two Brave Journalists
June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This post could be long. I’ll write it in small parts, instead.
Allan Johnston, the only western reporter who used to live in Ghaza, is captive for a long time now. He is probably alive.
It was very important that some western reporter lives in Ghaza and reports from there to the West, in a language […]
May
3
USS Liberty
May 3, 2007 | 2 Comments
A US spy ship, USS Liberty, was shot at during the seven day war(1967) by Israel. They tried at first to make it look like an attack by Egypt. Which almost succeeded. The US army responded by sending a A4 nuclear armed bomber to nuke Cairo. Somehow they realized that it was Israel’s work, and […]
Apr
4
The Release of the British
April 4, 2007 | 6 Comments
I was surprised at the tactical move by the Iranians to release all soldiers. They indeed are pretty clever!
In between they have ensured the release of a diplomat who was taken hostage by the occupation in Iraq.
Mar
30
The Captured British Woman
March 30, 2007 | 16 Comments
I don’t like the pictures shown in this and this news report. The British woman, who is not a Muslim, has suddenly started wearing headscarves! I don’t like it. I think she has been forced, or at the least intimidated to do it.
I won’t enter into the debate of whether they were in Iranian waters […]
Mar
21
Bits of Indian History: Excerpts of An Interview
March 21, 2007 | 5 Comments
An interesting interview of Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar.
…Hindutva forces are very unevenly spread out and there are many countervailing factors, I don’t think that it has all the marked features of fascism.
It doesn’t have a very formed, organized left enemy that it contends against…
Gowalkar quite openly said that India is not meant for electoral […]