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The father of Hamid (Dabholkar)
....Dr. Dabholkar’s greatest victory — a law against superstition and black magic — came posthumously.....One day after he was killed, the Maharashtra government cleared an ordinance, and in December...
View ArticleHussain Haqqani
....Sharif could have handled the protests better...Imran Khan and Tahir-ul Qadri....egged on by the military to clip Sharif’s wings....Pakistan similar to Thailand....urban middle class, gang up with...
View ArticleSo...it was Hamas after all
....Arouri told the conference that Hamas "did not have the intention at this time to ignite a large battle".....his group did not believe Israel wanted a war either"...."But Allah has chosen and...
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The (tiny) knife
....agree that jihadists are the villains, but remain deeply uncomfortable with the idea that Americans are the heroes.....My imagination is in thrall to the tiny knife....how difficult it would be, to...
View Article"A small incident of rape"
....'He calls (the gangrape of my daughter) a small incident bcos such things never happen to people like him.' ~ Asha Devi, Nirbhaya's mother....Jaitley speaks out his mindset: 1 "small incident of...
View ArticleKerala aims to be Gujarat (2025)
....The Congress-led United Democratic Front government, proposed to make Kerala alcohol-free in 10 years.....The cabinet has also decided to shut down 700 bars by cancelling their bar license.....from...
View ArticleDon't cry for me Yezidi
Like everyone else I've pretty much been inundated with issues from the Ummah (Iraq, Pakistan etc).It sure seems a lot easier when we had the triumvirate of Ottomania, Safavid & the Mughals (who...
View ArticleLion vs. porcupines
...Ananthamurthy said he would not want to live in an India where the prime minister is Narendra Modi...."I would get phone calls asking me, 'when are you leaving'?...I would like to visit Pakistan! I...
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Mardaani
For a person who started out in adverts and jingles, Pradeep Sarkar is not half bad as a director (his photography is exquisite). We loved Parineeta (and we fell in love with the heavenly Vidya...
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"Jihadi John" from Maida Vale
Do you have to be rich (or merely middle-class) to own a 1 mil pound home in Maida Vale, West London (W9)? It is part of posh Westminster and if you are a BPeep looking for a villa in St John's Wood...
View ArticleSuicide Tourism
...611 people not resident in Switzerland had been helped to die between 2008 and 2012....all but four of whom had gone to Dignitas....ages ranged from 23 to 97....over half of the 'tourists' were...
View Article‘are we reading or writing tonight?’
...Raju guarded his crate of Hercules Rum like a sentinel......clank the latch on the gate a specific number of times in a peculiar rhythm that only Raju and his regular clients knew....and this he...
View ArticleThe man loved by (all) women
....."I want to create new Pakistan not only for you but also for me...once Naya Pakistan becomes a reality, I will marry".....62-year-old Khan said to thunderous applause..... .....What do women...
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Chilling hypocrisy
...."The moment I realised that the illustration had created a controversy and had hurt many people, I deleted the tweet for having inadvertently hurt their feelings"........We do not question the...
View ArticleAn all-weather friend
.....Pakistanis will not countenance infringement by India of their sovereignty....imposition of conditionalities....exactly the kind of whimsicality and bullying that led to the Austro-Hungarian...
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Moshe and his (new) Imma
....candles mark the spot where Rabbi Holtzberg was shot dead....pictures adorn the stairwells......Rabbi Kotlarsky helped rebuild the centre....."You can overcome challenges, even the most horrific of...
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Pakistan as a spoil of war
So the PTI, an urban Punjab party, marched from the heart of the Punjab, Lahore, to the north of the Punjab, Islamabad, to demand power from PML-N, a rural-industrial Punjab party while the Punjabi...
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