Political Ponderings

A Tamilian in India, is an Indian first …

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In the last two days after the ordinance on Jallikattu was passed, the peaceful student agitation took an ugly turn…. all sorts of political and other nefarious elements infiltrated the peaceful agitators and tried to turn it into an anti-India, anti-Modi, anti-Hindi agitation. The good thing is students had dispersed before much of these things happened … Read more

देशवासियों, मद्रासियों से सीखो !!

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For four days now thousands of people have been at the Marina Beach, protesting the ban on “Jallikattu”…. whats so great about the protest ? People keep protesting everywhere for different things ! True, BUT, this is the first protest where huge crowds have gathered and there is no violence, no women have been groped, … Read more

Demonetization – the Elephant is through, its tail seems stuck though !

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Disclaimer – Krishnan and I are unaffected by the demonetization move since we were using less cash earlier and now use even lesser cash. We have done most of our transactions online. Some of my views may therefore be coloured due to this :), There was 15,5 Lakh crore worth of 500 and 1000 rupee … Read more

The bald, witty, democratic “Tughlaq” no more!

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His mentee Jayalalitha passed away yesterday and even before people could pour Earth over her coffin and the Earth settled, her mentor too passed away! I knew about Cho always because my dad was a huge fan. The only magazine that he would buy was “Tughlaq”. Dad accepted his political view without debate because Cho … Read more

Demonetization for political dummies & the intelligent common man

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Mr. S. Gurumurthy came into the limelight when he went after the poster boy of Indian business tycoons .. Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani, and then took on Bofors and then many other things. I remember seeing a series done by him for some TV channel on the local business practices of India and why we cannot … Read more

De-monetization Vs Demon-ization

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“et”.. just two letters that make all the difference. Today Gandhiji is cringing because there is a huge crowd of “politicians” standing in front of his statue in Delhi and asking for a rollback of the demonezation. For 14 years, many so called “leaders” used a particular riot in Gujarat to demonize one man – Narendra … Read more

I wonder why …

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I wonder why only India should be free-for-all, no rules country….. Yesterday all TV channels were crying hoarse about Mr. Mahesh Sharma’s comment that women tourists should not wear skirts… the Big Bindi brigade, fake liberals, Presstitutes, fossilized women who were once considered journalists (!!), and the rich and famous all chewed up Mr. Sharma. … Read more