Lessons for BJP

Seattle, after 188 days of miserable weather, is sunny and warm and I’ve been immersed in Indian elections on Indian Channels. Being a US citizen, and having been away for a very long time, my interest in India may sound academic or voyeuristic, but its neither. It’s affection, it’s love. So even if I am [...]

Congratulations Rahul Gandhi

The courage to go alone in UP, the 100,000 kilometers of campaigning, the “mitti kha loonga” speech, the ballsy brainy admission that the Congress Party needs to connect with India at grassroots level and is an organization needing a face lift are hallmarks of a leader – and instead of retaliating with vitriol to the [...]

Indian 66%

66% of Indian population is under 35 – www.youthportal.gov.in/statistics/demographicdetails.htm
So why is that not reflected in the candidates contesting current elections? I mean why isn’t the ideology or the idealism of youth – hope, change, ambition, courage and things like that – reflected in the current crop of contenders who still carry dynastic lineages, criminal [...]

Infomercial Gurus

Somethings defy commonsense – India’s obsession with Gurus is one of those. Superstition in this day and age being the other.
Bombay Stock Exchange listed Aastha Broadcasting Network (AABR.BO) calls itself “India’s No. 1 socio-spiritual-cultural television channel”. I found yesterday that it charges 5,000 Pounds (they do not bill in dollars) per month for the 30 [...]

To Mr. Obama

Dear Mr. Obama What took you so long to get to the White House? I guess I am wishing you were born earlier and live forever.
For years we’ve been raped and exploited by Wall Street and their ilk who promised us that if they took away our jobs and gave them to the Chinese and [...]

Indian Elections

Its human being mortified. Its human feeling frustrated. Its frustratingly mortifying being Indian if it means sharing some social, intellectual, value system DNA with badly spoken, bad intentioned men and women campaigning for another stab at power of stabbing India and Indians in the face.
Spastic press – excited like Indian press is – talking loud [...]

Child murdered

Shanno was always in danger. If her gender was detected pre-birth she might have been aborted. If she survived the beating that killed her she would’ve endured recurring groping in city buses and other forms of sexual harassment in public places. And then would come the possible danger of being burnt alive or if [...]

American CEOs An American Problem

In the February 2009 issue of Conde Nast “Portfolio” Matthew Cooper quotes Jack Welch as being apoplectic, “If business leaders are not aware of this terrible piece of legislation, they should be. It would hurt us dramatically in our ability to be competitive globally.”
Mr. Welch was referring to Employee Free Choice Act (EFSA) which [...]

Mumbai – Stupid is Indian Stupid

That the Mumbai Police Chief hasn’t been fired despite being perhaps the most inept cop leading perhaps the most inept cops on earth, and all those marchers, and journalists and celebrities haven’t demanded his ouster is stupider than stupid.

Before the terrorists there were Bhais especially the Big Dawood Bhai and that there’s a nexus between [...]

Coke & Islam

So Time – as in magazine – asked, “Were the Mumbai Terrorists Fueled by Coke?“
Not Coca Cola.
But Cocaine, and not only Cocaine but also LSD – evident from traces found left behind and in their blood.
So these were not only brain washed murderous villains they were also drugged out of their mind murderous villains. So [...]