2014

All years and months

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?

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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…

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Not yet ready for (online) purple fingers

The Supreme Court declined to let NRIs vote online in the ongoing elections. The poster says the issue merits attention and asks why residents should not vote online too.

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Whats App wins the (700 kg) gold medal

A report on gold smugglers using WhatsApp, after customs arrested an Emirates flight stewardess with 13 kg of gold, with the poster’s tongue-in-cheek warning and a comment on India’s gold…

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Not in our name (not quite good enough)

The poster would sign an open letter against communal violence in Gujarat if it also mentioned the Hindu pilgrims burnt on the train, and sets the state-backed killing in India…

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An orphan for life

A profile of Jashodaben, Narendra Modi’s estranged wife, from the Indian Express. The poster calls her the last of a generation of women who stand by their men and sees…

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The audacious (brown) Professor

A report that an Indian-American professor at Morgan State University was convicted of defrauding research grants of $700,000, with the poster calling it a good man gone bad through greed.

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The anti anti-rape backlash

A post on the backlash against India’s tougher anti-rape laws, quoting Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi’s call to hang women who have sex outside marriage, and the poster’s view that…

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1 Bil fighters for Mother India

A post on Facebook’s push to reach a billion Indian users during the elections, noting Modi’s large online following, with a swipe at the claim that American firms feed Hindutva.

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