'India must be the very first large State in history that has consciously and voluntarily decided to dismantle itself.'
There is a failure in India to encourage fresh blood, and to tell the famous to retire when their time is up.
India is being sold a bill of goods. Yet again.
India is only interested in its Diaspora in a crude and grasping manner: It remembers the 20-million-strong overseas Indian community only to beg them for their money. This is hypocritical and unbecoming.
The BJP should have, by rights, won a thumping majority. The fact that it did not is food for thought.
'I wouldn't put it past the Indian govt to walk into this honey-trap of the nuke deal with its eyes open. India's netas have done worse before.'
'The sceptical observer is left with the inescapable conclusion that something stinks about the nuke deal. It is a bad deal for India, period.'
Rajeev Srinivasan on how the Congress lost Tibet.
It is not clear exactly what Obama is going to change. Obama may be able to beat Clinton based on all this, but McCain may not be quite so easy.
All decent people must stand by Gujaratis, because unprincipled rogues are attacking them willy-nilly.
India, and its neighbours (although Musharraf has suddenly eschewed hypocrisy), are giving democracy a bad name. In none of these nations has democracy been anything more than a charade and a hoax.
The Sethu Samudram project is a prestige issue for so-called 'Dravidian' politicians. It is a matter of hubris waiting for nemesis.
None of the politicians who held the position of President particularly distinguished himself. Kalam, on the other hand, certainly stood out.
Despite all the hoopla, the Indian-American voter, and his money, counts for nothing in the mind of the American politician.
'The most recent incident involving Musharraf's make-believe is the standoff at a terrorist stronghold in Islamabad.'
'Encounter killings' are a product of a warped society wherein the media and the political class practice double standards.
Those who recognise the value of caste and utilise it will thrive; those who do not fall by the wayside. Mayawati has just proven this in UP.
Rajeev Srinivasan on springtime in India
Why the common man doesn't matter to Communists.
The Communists demonstrated that they are tyrants just like the Tsars.
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