May 2014
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RSS Led by Modi in Charge of India, Part I: Let It Sink In
First in a series on the Modi government, the post calls the BJP’s single-party majority the worst nightmare of India’s ‘pseudo-secularists’, arguing the party no longer needs regional allies and…
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Politics
The Officer’s Advice
Reproduces Waseem Altaf’s column arguing the army and ISI’s campaign against Geo TV is immature and will make the channel a hero, illustrated by an anecdote of a pre-partition Lahore…
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Science
Drones flying over Mumbai
A light note on a Mumbai pizzeria’s test delivery of a pizza by drone over 1.5 km, with the poster offering to arrange a drone and pizza welcome for visiting…
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Geopolitics
Mrs Menon goes to (two) Pakistan(s)
Reading Meena Menon’s closing report from Pakistan, the poster notes Indian journalists were expelled, asks why she says little on Pakistan’s Hindus, cites a lawmaker that thousands leave yearly, and…
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Science
India- A Nutritional Basket Case
Quotes an analysis calling India a nutritional basket case, with nearly every second child stunted, blaming crowding and poor sanitation, a cereal-heavy food policy and the low social status of…
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“Look at me, I’m here to end all your woes”
Following Rahul Pandita, the poster reads Rahul Gandhi’s smile after the defeat as a sign he is untroubled that the 128-year-old Congress has been destroyed, comparing the result to a…
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Permit-raj for bonsais
Recalling how India’s permit-raj throttled even telephone connections, the poster presents Aatish Taseer’s argument that the Congress ran an internal permit-raj, cultivating bonsai leaders who never grow big enough to…
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Politics
Arvind Kejriwal
Posts Aatish Taseer’s profile of Arvind Kejriwal, portrayed as a caricature of an aam aadmi whose flight from running Delhi is recast as renunciation, which the poster calls wonderful stuff.
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Politics
Aatish Taseer has the final word (NaMo vs. RaGa)
Praises Aatish Taseer’s article on why elites like Rahul Gandhi lost and may never rule India, with quoted passages on Modi’s mocking of poverty as a state of mind and…
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Diaspora
Kamila Shamsie pro-community, anti-nation
The poster criticises Kamila Shamsie’s defence of the right to stay silent during national anthems, arguing that as an elite with dual citizenship she should weigh its benefits, and asks…
