Archive for November, 2008

The reaper comes for Shivraj Patil

The political one, I mean.
Good riddance.

Financial Times’ rumor-mongering

Yet the murk in this instance is unusually thick.
Both Islamist and Hindu extremists have been bombing their way across India in an attempt to polarise opinion, especially ahead of general elections next year. Some of these appear to have been “false flag” attacks, including by Hindu supremacists masquerading as jihadis. One of the Mumbai attackers, presumed [...]

Azfal’s execution?

Respected Ms. Sonia Gandhi
Can the Supreme Court’s decision now be respected?
Kind regards

Indian Muslims – throw away victimhood, please

Q. Muslim militants have been responsible for much of the violence that has plagued Mumbai in recent years. But these attacks seem to be of a different magnitude. 
A. One of the untold stories of India is that the Muslim population has not shared in the boom the country has enjoyed over the last ten years. [...]

Deepak chopra, just shut up

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/king.chopra.mumbai/index.html
We cannot, if we do not appease and actually recruit the help of this Muslim world, we’re going to have a problem on our hands.
And we cannot go after the wrong people, as we did after 9/11, because then the whole collateral damage that occurs actually aggravates the situation.
In India, this is particularly inflammatory, because [...]

God bless our brave soldiers

The ATS chief is dead, and the Mumbai police is overwhelmed.
The army is now trying to take that great city back.
They are putting their lives on the line.
Everything on the line.
As I sit here helpless and angry, let us never forget the contributions of the brave, young men of our volunteer army force.
Never.

No financial quotas please

Reading this (IBN link)
It all started with Sachar Panel report last year enlisting poor credit facility to Muslims. The report was tabled in Parliament and the in an action-taken report, it was promised that loans to the Muslims would now be made easily accessible.
So it was decided last year that 15 per cent of all [...]

CEO compensation

Jealousy and the desire to scape-goat can be, if only subliminally, very strong motives.
But I shall not question the motives of a certain Michael Skapinker, who writing for the FT, wrote thus:
The problem is none of the mechanisms dreamt up to ensure that company leaders serve shareholder interests has worked. Share options have been a particular [...]

Clipped wings

The global financial storm did not take a long time in unraveling the excesses of India’s real economy, with the airline industry being a prominent, and rather illustrative, example. Although industry demand remains weak with a global and domestic slowdown seeming inevitable, the supply-side might partially mitigate the bad news because of falling oil prices.
The [...]