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Every year is a 2004

December 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I was closely following this election, and nearly missed the other one. As you know we have close to 30 chief ministers in India, but only two Adivasi rajas. The one in Kerala, Thevan Rajamannan died last week and it was a week long search for a successor.
Ariyaan Raja Mannan will succeed Thevan Rajamannan as […]

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Tags: Gujarat · elections

Who needs to be educated?

December 5th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Sohrabuddin was killed in a fake encounter,said the CBI and the Supreme Court. With Gujarat Elections around the corner Modi put it this way, as NDTV reported

Modi asked the crowd, ”What should be done to a man who stored illegal arms and ammunition? You tell me what should have been done to Sohrabuddin?”
The crowd replied, […]

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Tags: India · Gujarat · elections · kerala · secularism

Tehelka - Bol India Bol

October 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

NARENDRA MODI’s anger was palpable after the Godhra incident; he vowed revenge. Haresh Bhatt, the then national co-coordinator of the Bajrang Dal, was part of the meeting in which Narendra Modi told them they could do whatever they wanted for the next three days. After that, Bhatt says, “He asked us to stop and everything […]

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Has India lost Gujarat ?

October 28th, 2006 · 2 Comments

When this reporter, with his longish beard, walked into an elite government colony in Ahmedabad […]

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Tags: India · Gujarat · secularism

A Secular Rethink

August 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again - Maya Angelou
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A few years back we faced our worst fears as a nation , today we are again a smug faced crowd hiding behind globalised cliches like Islamic terrorism and a global war on […]

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Tags: India · Gujarat · secularism