April 2014
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Politics
Who killed Philip Marshall (and why) ?
A report on the death of Philip Marshall and his children, with the poster noting his theories about 9/11 and offering no opinion beyond saying the whole affair smells wrong.
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(Tata) Car Of The Year (COTY)
A light note on a Jaguar sports car winning a car award, praised as a Tata product, with background on Bombay House, the Tata Group’s Mumbai headquarters.
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The “hospital of death”
An article on infant deaths at Kolkata’s B.C. Roy children’s hospital, which the poster reads as a sign of deep rot in Bengal’s health system, set against the memory of…
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Mere paas Bhagwan hai!!
A mock-epic preview of the 24 April Tamil Nadu poll, pitting Karunanidhi’s DMK against Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK and a BJP alliance, with opinion-poll figures and a report that Modi would meet…
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Economy
Samsung (plans) to drop Android
A post on reports that Samsung may drop Android for its own operating system, with a question whether it can deliver one, and a warning that India is one of…
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Baby Musa is a free man
Baby Musa, charged with attempted murder in Lahore, is freed after police strike his name from the FIR. The poster hopes the court will act on its own motion and…
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Kabhi Khushi Bahut Gham
A post on Sanjaya Baru’s tell-all book about Manmohan Singh, summarising its claims that Singh took direction from Sonia Gandhi, with the poster’s sharp remarks on the Gandhi family and…
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A rose by any other name…
A post on Bollywood’s habit of renaming stars, ending with Ayesha Shroff’s 2011 interview on how Katrina Kaif was given a Kashmiri-Indian identity to connect with audiences.
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Israel & Pakistan more alike than not?
http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.585229?v=30EF0AA4E7DD4DADEA29C1408D626EDA
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Geopolitics
52/444/1979
A report that the US will refuse a visa to Iran’s pick for UN envoy, a former student revolutionary of the 1979 hostage crisis. The poster doubts that an American-Iranian…
