There is an apparent irony in today’s paper. On the front page you have a half page story talking about India’s investment and how Mukesh Ambani is the world’s richest man (63 billion $ is a lot). On how the sensex has risen 1000 points in 14 days and the top 5 companies have contributed [...]
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
The reality of free speech: The Gujarat episode
Posted in Constitution, Court, Democracy, Human Rights, india, Rights on Oct 28th, 2007
—————- Now playing: Neil Young – We r in control via FoxyTunes The recent events in Gujarat are tattering to an Indian’s heart. It’s not just the Tehelka tapes that have come out in the open; the banning of TV news channels in Gujarat, disgusting comments by the Press and politicians are all a consequence [...]
A few days ago there were allegations of retail giant GAP violating child labour laws in many of its outsourced suppliers factories all over the world. 31 of these factories are located in India. These events gave GAP the image as if it was being run as a sweat shop operation. …………….. A 10-year-old [...]
NALSAR Post: Hilarious :)
Posted in india on Oct 21st, 2007
I Don’t think I’ll be able to study anymore tonight. First a few II years find a marriage profile of one of our Professors and second the first years come up with this hilarious post on Facebook. PS: the spellings are the way the teacher’s pronounce them.And NALSAR is the National Academy for Legal Studies [...]
Bobby Jindal has won! He is now officially the new governor of Louisiana. Think I’m writing this for the main fact that he’s an Indian and has won in a once segregated state. Born of native Indians in New Orleans, this guy has actually come up the ranks the hard way to win and become [...]
Literature Nobel
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2007
What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, ‘Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.’ [...]