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Mother, should I build a wall?

Posted in India, Liberalism, Politics, tagged , , on May 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »

A few days back, good friend Ashwin had presented his ‘two cents’ on his support for the Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss’ comments on the ban on smoking and drinking on-screen. I wanted to put forward my ‘do paisa’ on this, but on a broader scale.
The problem with the governments that have been ruling our [...]

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A tale of two Presidents

Posted in Politics, tagged on December 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »

About an year back, when I was working in Hyderabad, I was a part of Young Indians (Yi), a pan-Indian youth organization. While working on one of the Yi assignments, we were fortunate to meet the CEO of Satyam’s Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI). While speaking about his organization spreading its wings in cities other [...]

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Dutt’s the way

Posted in India, Politics on August 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »

IMHO, all this noise about the judgement meted out to Sanjay Dutt being unfair is, well, just noise. The fact is that he carried arms and if he claims that it was for his protection (yeah, right), then he should have taken prior permission. And if he was not a celebrity, he would have been [...]

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Wah Taj boliye, please

Posted in AR Rahman, Music, Politics, Rajnikanth, Travel on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

With ‘Ek Mohabbat’, AR Rahman has come up with another magnificient number, this time for the ‘Vote for Taj’ campaign for the new seven wonders of the world. Rahman is at his best, mixing technology with melody, like only he can and the result is magnificient. As if Rajni not featuring was not an incentive [...]

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For President

Posted in Karuthu Kandasamy, Politics, Tamizh on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

President APJ Abdul Kalam made it clear that he does not want to re-contest in the upcoming Presidential elections. But power politics does not work that way in India. The third front have made sure that his name has been dragged in, whether he likes it or not. We all grew up with the knowledge [...]

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On banning Orkut

Posted in Politics on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The Government is considering Shiv Sena’s call for a ban on orkut.
In the meantime, the Shiv Sena student wing is trying to develop a software to keep a check on the so-called abusive communities in orkut and block them. And Google is apparently trying to hire them. Heh.
In related news, Karuthu Kandasamy wonders if the [...]

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