April 2014
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Politics
Post poll verdict: Congress in a tight corner
The author predicts a big BJP/NDA win after high Mumbai turnout, arguing that Muslims have mobilised behind Congress and Hindus behind the BJP, and that the Aam Aadmi Party has…
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Politics
LTTE murderers will remain in jail (for now)
A comment with a news extract on the Supreme Court referring the release of Rajiv Gandhi’s convicted killers to a larger constitution bench; the poster calls the decision sensible given…
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Mother of all ballots (180 mil, 117 seats, 04/24)
Ahead of a major polling day, the poster observes that Christian and Muslim communities differ in their attitudes to Modi, with some Kerala and Goan Christians reportedly backing him, and…
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Society
Americans (ideologues) prefer traitors
The author takes up Reihan Salam’s argument that dating preferences by race reflect the communities people grow up in, reports that among his peers brown women and white men often…
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Deep State Fatwa: shut down Geo TV (or else)
A comment, with a news extract, on the Pakistan Army’s demand that Geo TV be shut after it accused the ISI of ordering an attack on Hamid Mir; the poster…
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Ground Zero (Rana Plaza, Bangladesh)
On the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, the poster says surviving victims still have no justice, recommends buying a book of the images, and reproduces a long account…
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Politics
Affirmative action is dead
A comment, with a news extract, on the US Supreme Court’s 6-2 ruling that Michigan may ban affirmative action in public education; the poster attributes it to the Southern white…
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Science
500 mil Speedsters on the (Whats App) Freeway
A short comment on WhatsApp passing 500 million users, with growth led by India and Brazil, noting that nobody yet knows how to monetise the app; an extract from WhatsApp’s…
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TCS (soft)powers India to Premier League
A comment on Tata Consultancy Services entering the world’s top ten IT services firms by revenue, with the poster suggesting that what is good for TCS is now good for…
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Rani of the Chopra-s
A Dawn news item on the private wedding of the actress Rani Mukerji and the director Aditya Chopra in Italy, with a line wishing the couple well.
