Entries from April 2009

April 27, 2009

Some Things Never Change..

DMK leader and Chief Minister Karunanidhi went on a sudden indefinite fast in the morning today suggesting that he was ready to be ‘yet another victim’ of violence in Sri Lanka. The grand old man of Tamil Nadu ended his fast within a few hours after an assurance by the Prime Minister and Home Minister [...]

April 25, 2009

Punishment For Some, Publicity For Others

Come elections and the debate over secular vs fundamentalist begins on all TV channels and in the print media. To me it is all about  political opportunism. Both majority and minorities are taken for a ride. Modi-bashing and saffron bashing may be the easy route to vote bank politics but one has to be fair [...]

April 20, 2009

We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate..

I thought my next post will be about IPL, it has started in a superb way but  in the election season I couldn’t help writing about general elections once again no matter how passionate I feel about Cricket and IPL. Election campaigning  has  hit the bottom as far as as the level of personal attacks [...]