Archive for the ‘politics’ Category

Riots, Religion, Politics

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Today is 26th January. It is India's 58th Republic Day. It is the 58th time that we as a nation have come together to celebrate the forming of a republic which is governed by a constitution that states:WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India intoa SOVEREIGN ...

Strongly rising anger…

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

despondent recently had an entry Open Your Mouth and Die about the shooting of Meher Bhargav. When I was writing about the furore about Rang De Basanti (see earlier posts), what I was most upset about was the fact that there could be very few things in the world that ...

Far too much yellow!

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

This is not a review of Rang de Basanti. For my own review you can read it at my other blog. I am disappointed that many people have felt the movie is bad because of personal prejudice. The contentions raised by these individuals varies from 'Advocating violence is wrong' to 'the ...