The results of the recent assembly elections in Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan underline strong indicators for future. Political parties that ignore these will be upstaged, as the Congress found out the hard way. Thinly spread welfare measures are no good without addressing and understanding the real aspirations of the people. The Aaam Aadmi…
Tag: Delhi
The making of a rapist
My attention would not have been drawn to 10-year old Kaku under usual circumstances. It did, as our collective consciousness has been seized by the recent Shakti Mills gang rape in Mumbai and earlier in Delhi that resulted in the death of the brave Nirbhaya. I recently met Kaku just by chance at a park…
The right to kiss in India
According to recent news reports, video clips of couples being intimate with each other while traveling in the Delhi metro have been uploaded on porn websites. I use the metro whenever there is need. Mostly the coaches are jam packed compelling an orgy of intimacy with every passenger in the vicinity. It is similar to…
Roads full of rage in India
A Pakistani diplomat was recently assaulted in Delhi when his car bumped a motor cyclist. Although Islamabad sees a larger conspiracy, this gives too much credit to India’s intelligence agencies which, unlike Pakistan’s dreaded ISI, are incapable of executing such a delicate operation — getting a lowly paid agent to ride a bike, bump a…
Terror Strikes India Again
Terrorists have struck again at Hyderabad. The attack, in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru, underlines that militants can orchestrate and time a strike in India almost at will. Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said there were intelligence inputs that such an attack was being planned. This is supposed…
Siddharth Srivastava 