Politics & Society

Michael Jackson’s dead. Long live…

By abhishek at 27 June, 2009, 2:08 am

Why a post on Michael Jackson on an Indian blog? Why not talk about the legendary Sarod maestro Ustad Akbar Ali Khan who died of renal failure in San Fransisco than about some Afro American entertainer chocking of Cardiac arrest somewhere in LA. Google hits? May be. May be more…

Tackling India’s own Taliban

By Ritika at 26 June, 2009, 9:18 am

I can’t help but draw parallels between Pakistan’s crusade against Taliban in Swat valley and Indian government’s crusade against Maoist in Lalgarh. As Pakistan army fights the Taliban to uproot their hold over the Swat valley, India too is fighting its own Taliban, the Maoists in Lalgarh and currently carrying out an operation to regain the land usurped by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the hinterlands of the West Bengal.

Did Anyone say - Weak PM?

By Ritika at 24 June, 2009, 8:27 pm

The last elections were mainly fought by BJP by projecting BJP Prime Ministerial candidate L.K. Advani as a strong leader unlike Manmohan Singh, the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate, who was often criticized for being a weak leader by the opposition BJP, the media and by many of his own party men. Though Manmohan Singh stood his ground on the nuclear treaty issue which forced Left to withdraw support, he was still regarded as a man who worked under the aegis of Sonia Gandhi and who did not have the courage to stand his own guard.

Manmohan singh invites Nandan Nilekani to head the National ID Project

By Aditya Mhatre at 23 June, 2009, 1:42 am

As promised, the UPA governement is going ahead with the National identity card project and are trying to the get the most influential mind to work on it. The project intends to provide each Indian with a National Identity card and replace the various kind of identiy cards that are currently being used [...]

Ways to deal with the child labour menace in India

By Ritika at 29 May, 2009, 12:22 am

Recently, I read an article in ‘The Economist’ regarding child labour in Bangladesh. That set me thinking that we don’t fare much better in India. We have often seen rampant child labour practices in textile, small scale industries, gems and jewellery etc and mostly in domestic help sector. Though we have child labour laws prohibiting [...]