All governments violate the basic rights of their citizens in the interests of the powerful and the wealthy. Nothing new about it. Right through history, it’s been that way whatever be the form of government in any country you look at. India, China, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, South Africa, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, the […]
[Karunanidhi’s] support in the DMK will probably erode as the trial gets under way….We feel that Karunanidhi’s political career may not survive this latest onslaught by the GOI….We feel that Karunanidhi’s remarkable political career has reached its crossroads and that it is now at the beginning of the end. – November 2, 1976 Telegram from […]
Distressing! No, a catastrophe is the better way to describe India’s tryst with the Internet. We’re not talking of a looming catastrophe but one that’s already upon us. Save as a catastrophe, there’s no other way to describe Internet usage and penetration in India. Source: World Startup Report, March 19, 2013 Forget the unbridgeable chasm […]
So you are a desi with just five hours to poke around Washington DC before heading back to Palookaville. Excuse me, I borrowed Palookaville from Marlon Brando who used the word in one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history. Let’s get back to DC, shall we, and leave Brando and On The […]
Some corporations are like some people – Utter weirdos in their insatiable masochistic appetite for pain. Not content with failing miserably in its earlier consumer tablet outing, HP today announced plans to ship a new Android tablet, the Slate 7. Based on Android OS 4.1 Jelly Bean software, the 7-inch Slate 7 costs $169 and […]
************************** Latest Update: Lakshminivasa Rao Nerusu Sentenced to Life in Prison ************************** If Telugu bidda Lakshminivasa Rao Nerusu is indeed the killer of his wife and young children, then he certainly chose the right American state (Michigan) to commit the three heinous murders. Even if Lakshminivasa Rao Nerusu is extradited from the great Indian state […]