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Prostitutes no longer criminals
Posted by: BD on: September 5, 2007
- In: India| prostitution
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If the proposed amendments to the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act of 1956 are passed, prostitutes would no longer be treated as criminals.
However their profession would still continue to be treated as an illegal one.
Fifty years after India enacted a legal framework to check prostitution, Government has finally decided to go for a radical change in [...]
Indian politicians – Vande mataram mix
Posted by: BD on: August 15, 2007
- In: India| Politics
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Politicians with I-day vigor!
Happy Independence Day!
Happy Independence Day
Posted by: BD on: August 14, 2007
- In: India| Pakistan
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… to all my friends in Dushman Des
All Things Pakistan has a series of insightful posts on events around Pakistan’s independence. Do check them out!
Tomorrow, on the occasion of India’s independence day, NDTV has a bouquet of interesting programmes. The ones to watch out for are Azaad Humsafar and Freedom at Midnight.
The thing to [...]
Whither Democracy?
Posted by: BD on: August 11, 2007
- In: India| Pakistan| Politics
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Aqil, at pakistaniat.com, has an extensive post on the need for democratization of political parties in Pakistan.
Unfortunately, the political parties are not interested in such reforms. Even the much hyped charter of democracy, (which did contain some constructive proposals on the independence of the judiciary, the election commission and the national accountability bureau) was lacking in [...]
More on Motorcycle Diaries
Posted by: BD on: June 9, 2007
- In: India| Movies
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Some dialogue snippets (among many that I found interesting):
A humorous discussion Che and his friend Alberto had with a Nun at a leper colony they were visiting:
Ernesto Guevara: Mother.
Mother Sister Alberto: Yes?
Alberto Granado: We want to eat.
Ernesto Guevara: We deserve to eat like everyone else.
Mother Sister Alberto: Yes, but you didn’t [...]
Bizarre internship
Posted by: BD on: April 11, 2007
- In: India| Politics
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This guy from IIM-A is interning at the research cell of the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M)!
It’s not unusual to see IIM students interning at posh offices on Wall Street, but someone voluntarily opting for interning at the offices of a political party is bizarre.
Chepuri admits that he chose the off-beat internship offer [...]
Police reforms update
Posted by: BD on: April 4, 2007
- In: India| police
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Since the last time I posted an update on police reforms, the only significant progress seems to have been made by the state of Rajasthan. At least that’s what the news snippet says:
The draft Bill is based on the apex Court’s direction to the State Governments to amend the Police Act of the British times [...]
NDTV videos are now free
Posted by: BD on: March 26, 2007
- In: India| NDTV
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I knew this was coming, just didn’t know they would take this long. CNN-IBN, NDTV’s rival news network has been offering free videos since its launch approximately a year ago. Where as NDTV used to charge like $5 for 300 minutes of news video.
But then I never liked CNN-IBN, ended up paying for the subscription. [...]
Anger management
Posted by: BD on: March 25, 2007
- In: India| cricket
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Before I say something I’d like to make a confession. I don’t follow cricket. When a friend of mine told me about Bob Woolmer’s death, my first question to her was ‘Who’s Bob Woolmer?’
Although I don’t share the anger of millions of Indian cricket fans, I still fail to find a justification for this.
This kind [...]
Google please don’t be evil
Posted by: BD on: March 20, 2007
- In: Google| India| Pakistan| Politics
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The past few weeks have had pretty spicy developments.
The nature and speed of the Pakistani blogosphere’s reaction to the recent ouster of the Chief Justice of Pakistan has been pretty impressive. The amount of insightful discussions generated per post is phenomenal.
Back home, Google has entered into a naughty agreement with the Mumbai police regarding disclosure [...]
“Samjhauta” with security
Posted by: BD on: February 21, 2007
While the newspapers are busy speculating about the culprits behind the Samjhauta express blasts, and sometimes giving due coverage to politico soundbytes, news of value happens to be a rare commodity.
But sometimes one does get lucky. I happened to come across this on Rediff:
“Tightening security measures at the Old Delhi Railway Station, Railways has decided [...]
India leads in remittances
Posted by: BD on: February 11, 2007
NRI’s(Non resident Indians) may be lagging behind their Chinese counterparts in terms of investing in their parent country, but in terms of remittances they beat em all. Alex has an interesting and comprehensive analysis of the same.
Upgrade with Care 2
Posted by: BD on: February 7, 2007
- In: India| Military| World
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What’s delaying the procurement of $9 billion Multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) deal? The Hindu has some details.
On a related topic, old story but worth mentioning, India and Russia have finally decided to go ahead with the joint development of a 5th generation fighter jet (tip Mihir). This comes after India had expressed its reservations regarding [...]
On Newsworthiness
Posted by: BD on: February 2, 2007
- In: Dork Media| India
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It’s been a while since Shilpa Shetty won the Celebrity Big brother title. I hoped ‘Thank God! Finally it’s come to an end’. But no! The media is relentless! It’s sincerely following it up!
Would you MSM guys give me a break?
You were kind enough to get into the nitty gritty of the whole Shilpa [...]
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