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 [...]

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 [...]

No more Wall Street down my throat

As if enough wasn’t enough AIG paid billions to Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch etc. settling it’s debt in full. Why was the debt not discounted since we the tax payers are paying for the survival of this corrupt institution made of enemies of American people is beyond my comprehension.
Ethics amongst thieves I guess?
To avoid all [...]

Bobby Jindal “Hai hai”

Hai Hai is the most felt, expressed and used hence most understood political sentiment in India. It loosely translated means “Shame shame or “die of shame”. Since I owe my ancestry to that country like Mr. Jindal, I thought “hai hai” was the best way to describe my feelings about his last speech flaying [...]

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 [...]

Mumbai – a story of great letdown

Thank you Officers Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar, Unnikrishnan and the yet nameless brave who died trying to free Mumbai from the clutches of fanatics who like smallpox, the great plague and AIDS need to be purged from the face of this earth – and it is my hope that these spawn of evil culture will be [...]

Mumbai Attacks

So it’s happened again.
About 67 days after Mohan Chand Sharma of Delhi Police died of terrorist bullets, now Ashok Kamte, Vijay Salaskar and Hemant Karkare are dead of terrorist bullets – all Super Cops with a stellar record of service and bravery; all dead fighting for country led by a Prime Minister and a [...]