Entries from May 2008

May 24, 2008

Shouldn’t Indians Decide About Indians Mr Patil?

“You want Afzal Guru to be hanged. (At the same time) you are saying that don’t hang a person who has gone to Pakistan (Sarabjit Singh),” home minister Shivraj Patil told reporters in Latur .

The Supreme Court had convicted Afzal Guru for the attack on Parliament in December 2001 and sentenced him to [...]

May 22, 2008

We Deserve Illegal Immigrants Because We are Growing?

This is an excerpt from the article published on May 19 in a Bangladeshi newspaper, The Daily Star:
Of course, there are many Bangladeshi immigrants inside India. There will always be. The real question about Jaipur is — who are these people in the “Bangali Para” — what were they doing all this time? Working for [...]

May 17, 2008

Unacceptable Horror

On 13th May, serial blasts rocked Jaipur. Sixty people were killed, and more than 150 injured. This hasn’t happened for the first time in India. Various cities have seen terrorist attacks over the years. The pain is the same, where ever it happens.The world expressed outrage and mourned  with the victims. I will express my [...]