Archive for September 2006
Brain-dead media
Posted by: BD on: September 27, 2006
- In: Dork Media| Politics| World
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The ‘dork media’ category has been gathering dust. Time to pay a visit to this baby.
We often crib about our Desi Dork Media, affectionately called as DDM. However, the American media is not far behind. A good example of which is the recent interview of Bill Clinton by Chris Wallace of the Fox network, [...]
Top 5 reasons to buy Musharraf’s memoirs
Posted by: BD on: September 27, 2006
- In: Humor| Politics| World
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So, I was thinking about buying Musharraf’s memoirs. But, as I went through the excerpts that have been showing up in different sections of the media for a week now(one of those is in my previous post), I realized it’s not going to be an easy decision.
To make things easier, I decided to list out [...]
Funny quote of the day
Posted by: BD on: September 25, 2006
- In: Quotes
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I can say with confidence that neither the Pakistan Army nor any of the past governments of Pakistan was ever involved or had any knowledge of A Q’s proliferation activities.’
Pervez Musharraf, in his book In the Line of Fire.
Rajnikanth makes it to digg!
Posted by: BD on: September 23, 2006
And this indeed is one of the funniest videos on youtube!
[tags]Rajnikanth[/tags]digg story
Police reforms
Posted by: BD on: September 23, 2006
- In: General| Politics
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The Supreme Court has ordered sweeping police reforms acting on a public interest litigation(PIL) filed by retd. Director General of Police(DGP) Prashant Singh. Broadly speaking, the reforms aim to achieve the following:
Insulate police from politicians.
Separate law&order machinery from investigative apparatus.
Fix the tenure of police officers.
Moreover as this order comes from the highest seat of judiciary, [...]
Appreciate what you can do
Posted by: BD on: September 22, 2006
Rakant reflects on the other face of Mumbai — slums, poverty and misery.(via Ankan).
My thoughts:
A wealthy man shouldn’t feel guilty about his wealth. For wealth doesn’t simply mean the amount of money he has. It means the amount of change he can bring about in his vicinity — knowledge or money, both imply wealth. He [...]
Mohabbat Zindabad
Posted by: BD on: September 22, 2006
- In: Politics| World
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The media was full of speculations about outcome of the proposed dialogue between India and Pakistan in the recently finished NAM summit. Four days before the summit there was a column by Najam Sethi on Daily Times that suggested the following:
However, precisely for these reasons, it is important for Pakistan and India to continue to [...]
Puducherry
Posted by: BD on: September 21, 2006
Pondicherry is going to be known has Puducherry. I’m not sure if an old post of mine was the cause.
Google Creative writing competition
Posted by: BD on: September 20, 2006
Google is not just about code jams. For a change, Google(India) is organizing a creative writing competition. Amit Agarwal has more info.
via desipundit.
Brief visit to heaven
Posted by: BD on: September 20, 2006
- In: Asides Besides| Humor
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Syed Firdaus Ashraf writes about his experience in Brazil where he had gone as a part of PM’s delegation. A must read ROTFL material.
[tags]Brazil[/tags]
Gandhigiri Zindabad
Posted by: BD on: September 20, 2006
Gandhigiri in Lucknow!
[tags]Munnabhai, Gandhigiri[/tags]
The US president, George Bush, today dismissed the Geneva conventions on the laws of war as “vague” and called on Congress to back controversial new rules on the handling of terror suspects. – The Guardian
Sure, whatever works for them is righteous, and whatever doesn’t can be just chucked out like that. Deja Vu.
[tags]ICJ, Geneva Conventions, [...]
The US president, George Bush, today dismissed the Geneva conventions on the laws of war as “vague” and called on Congress to back controversial new rules on the handling of terror suspects. – The Guardian
Sure, whatever works for them is righteous, and whatever doesn’t can be just chucked out like that. Deja Vu.
[tags]ICJ, Geneva Conventions, [...]
Mystery of Zahedan – II
Posted by: BD on: September 16, 2006
- In: Military| Politics| World
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Continued from here.
Iran has a significant number of baloch people residing in the Sista-Balochistan province. The Baloch nationalist movement should hurt Iran as it hurts Pakistan. In this light, Iran’s complicity in Baloch insurgency is quite perplexing.
Balochistan is by no means a “Kashmir” for Pakistan. It’s much more than that, simply because there are so [...]
Mystery of Zahedan
Posted by: BD on: September 16, 2006
Pakistan has asked Iran to monitor the Indian consulate in the Iranian border city of Zahidan, alleging it was aiding nationalist rebels in the southwest Balochistan province. — Rediff
Islamabad has conveyed its concern to Tehran that the Indian consulate in Zahidan is involved in terrorist activities in Pakistan — Dawn
India has 3 consulates in Iran(compare [...]
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