Politics & Policy

We know that on the fateful night of October 20, 2014, Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke fired 16 bullets into the body of 17 year old Laquan McDonald....

The 10 guiding principles of present-day conservatives (in no particular order):\r\n\r\n State and local rights are great - until those rights go against my...

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To the two people who read my blog (apart from my wife of course), I apologize for the long hiatus. I've written four blog entries in the last one year, and...

From the middle-east to New Zealand, it seems that the skilled immigrants are much in demand. In an article on Aug 20, New York Times says:\r\nEven countries...

Got a link to this magnificent 1996 commencement speech by Salman Rushdie from a SAJA email list. For the first five minutes, I could not stop chuckling at the...

The Indian American blogosphere has been hyper-activated the past few days since Obama campaign attacked Hillary Bill Clintons' \"support\" for Outsourcing....

I've been thinking about writing a post on how the Shia-Sunni violence in Iraq has driven a spear right through the heart of the concept of pan-Islamic...

Maureen Dowd with her caustic with and biting sarcasm is one of my most favorite op-ed writers but today, she outdid herself with this opening paragraph in her...

After the 2006 mid-term elections, a lot of people in the US, including yours truly feel this way.\r\n\r\n\r\n

Yes, that is the headline that the New York Times is leading with tonight. I never thought that I'd see that headline, or if I did, it would include a couple...

If you are a keen observer of politics like I am and if you've seen political campaigns in India, specially in the Hindi belt, you know how dirty the election...

\r\nIs Islam a peaceful religion? Is it a violent one? Does Quran teach violence? Does it teach love and peace? Are all Muslims violent? Are some of them...

Global warming activists have been hitting all the right notes lately. There's the Al Gore Movie, An Inconvenient Truth, there's the report by the National...

\r\nIs it a requirement to do a favorible story, if there is none? That does not stop partisan Carl Moore, a staunch conservative to mock 60 minutes...

Karl Rove, the architect is back to his dirty tricks using national security as a wedge issue in this election year:\n\n\nKarl Rove, Mr. Bush's top political...

CNN is reporting:\r\nA decorated Marine colonel turned anti-war congressman has said Marines killed at least 30 innocent Iraqi civilians \"in cold blood\" in...

\r\n\r\n\r\nAN INDIAN sailor was allegedly beaten to death by his colleagues on board a Norwegian oil tanker in the first week of February in the international...

Indian Express (who else?) reported on Sunday that the government of India is ready to release a 15 point program which will mandate spending based on...

The hypocrisy is unbelievable, the pathos staggering. If it were not for the fact the main player in this Orwellian drama is one of the parties that holds a...

The terrorist attack in Banglore on Dec 28th has made a lot of people nervous about the outsourcing industry. Of course, people who’ve been against outsourcing...

What makes the US tick? What makes it the most powerful nation in the world? Well the events of last month provided us with many examples all leading to the...

Now why do you think that the people who are against Globalization, American hegemony, America's corrupting influence on the world, Capitalism and it evil...

\nM.R. Kutty was killed by Taliban in Afghanistan. Behind all the bickering on whether Pakistan was or wasn't behind the attacks, an essential question still...

Read this in one of the obituaries of Peter Drucker. It is surprising how much of it still holds true and also how much of it does not, thanks to two people,...

Oh the depths to which our politicians would stoop to get votes. Hindustan Times is reporting today about posters in Mumbai that congratulated Margaret Alva,...

So what’s plaguing France? I was listening to a podcast by a BBC correspondent today. He was interviewing a 20 year old leader of a gang of half a dozen Muslim...

There are so many contradictions in this post. It only reflects the complex world that we live in and that everything is not black and white – there are always...

In her iconic novel \"Atlas Shrugged\", Ayn Rand described the struggle that goes on between creators of wealth and the class of people who depend upon the...

Is there a global conspiracy against Congress and more specifically K. Natwar Singh? Haa haa haa, you gotta be kidding me! This is the worst attempt at...

\n\n\"BJP and Youth Congress activists clashed in Thane on Saturday morning over posters put up by the BJP protesting Bollywood actor Govinda’s alleged link...

Now here’s something really interesting. Toyota Motor Corp has developed a derivative of the Cherry Sage shrub that is optimized for absorbing pollutants from...

Did something important happen in the world in the last two days? Something that might have long lasting repurcussions on our own peace and security? Looking...

This seems to be very alarming:\n\n“According to some reports, Tehran is also looking to build bridges with other political outfits in India, especially those...

Here is another instance of ritual getting an upper hand over spirit. Apparently you can dial-a-puja on your mobile as if you are ordering a pizza and...

Hinduism’s lack of moral center has been apparent for quite some time. How else do you explain the dowry killings, the killings of infant girl child in many...

\n\nThey say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Look at this picture - I plucked it from some website with an article on the left's protests against...

Times of India is carrying an article on its website on how some IITians find jobs in Indian bureaucracy to be more exciting than with a multinational...

Being a political junkie I am always on the lookout for interesting articles to read, TV shows to watch or radio programs to listen to. While I was in Chicago...

The Indian middle class is famously apathetic to politics. If poll numbers are any indication, we Indians treat Election Day as just another holiday. If the...

This one is from the archives of Outlook published in January 2005 but only recently caught my eye. In Congress – all the glory belongs to the Nehru Gandhi...

Anurag Kashyap – a second generation Indian-American won this year’s spelling competition continuing the great run of success that Indians have had in this...

Seven years ago – on the late afternoon of May 11th I was lying on my bed in my studio apartment in Jodhpur when I felt a slight tremor. Thinking that an...

Imagine that the US has a black President and a woman as the majority leader in the Congress. Imagine that UK has a Muslim as its Prime Minister. Imagine that...

It is amazing to see uncanny similarities between the Hindu religious right in India and the Christian religious right in the US. Just like the cow belt in...

The Pioneer is furiously asking in today’s editorial if the incidents of the past two weeks in Jharkhand and Bihar do not remind one of 1975 and Indira...

It would have been almost comical were the consequences for the country had not been so serious. Yes, I am talking about the great Indian secular media...

There is a great editorial in today's Pioneer. Please do yourself a favor and read it:\n\nhttp://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=EDITS...

I am not too sure if everyone has been following the charade going on in India after the recently held state elections. Same old drama, same old script and...

Our good old Outlook magazine is at it again. During the days when Vinod Mehta was the editor at Pioneer I used to admire him so much. Never did I think at...

Times of India is soooooo cute. I am so thankful to their editors that they put so much energy in writing cute headlines for their mundane articles. In fact -...

She is the Jason Blair of India - rather of Outlook. Sitting from her comfortable perch in Washington DC, she feels qualified enough to write about first and...

Indian media has become one giant circus with Outlook leading the pack. Times of India reads like a tabloid, while no one reads Indian Express. The Hindu has...