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by
Gautam Chikermane
We
may be Muslims, saab, but we cannot cut this peepal tree. His name is Rahim
and his band of workers sound Muslim too. The carpenter - Maulana saab. The
painters - Abdul and Ismail. The plumber - Yaqub. I didn't hire him because
of who he was (or who he thinks he is) but because he's a competent contractor.
And among the many other jobs that a house needs, cutting the peepal tree on
the terrace of our landlord's apartment was one. ......
by
Oken Jeet Sandham
If
Assam Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajay Singh's statement that about 6000 illegal
Bangladeshis are entering Assam daily is correct, then the fate of the north-east
people are terribly at stake. ......
If a man enters a government office and pays a clerk a hundred rupees to move
some papers he will be accused of corrupting the petty official through bribery.
What shall we call Finance Minister P. Chidambaram who is willing to underwrite
farmers' debts to the tune of Rs. 60,000 crores, a little ahead of the time
for the next general elections? .......
by
Priyanka P. Narain
Out of the 116 pages of a government report devoted to the controversial Adam's
Bridge, just one dwells on the national security implications of dredging the
coral walkway between India and Sri Lanka. .......
by
Saibal Dasgupta
If there's one thing China would have wanted to avoid in an Olympics year, it's
memories of Tiananmen Square. But those very images were reignited on the streets
of Lhasa as Red Army tanks rolled out to crush Tibetan protesters on Saturday.
While the official Chinese media claimed only ten people had died in Friday's
violence, Tibetan activists said the toll could be anywhere between 30 and 100.
......
by
The Middle East Media Research Institute
In an interview on the Waqt television channel, that was published by the mainstream
Urdu daily Roznama Nawa-i-Waqt, senior Pakistani newspaper editor Majeed Nizami
discussed Kashmir's importance to Pakistan, called it "the jugular vein"
of Pakistan, and added that Pakistan should not hesitate to use nuclear weapons
to take it from India. ......
by
The Economic Times
Hurray! The Rs 60,000 crore loan waiver mystery has finally been solved. When
FM P Chidambaram in his budget speech mentioned the scheme would cost the taxpayer
all of Rs 60,000 crore, no one could figure out how he'd arrived at that figure.
All kinds of conjectures were made: the waiver was a last-minute afterthought
and since there was no provision for it in the budget, it was a number the FM
had pulled out of his hat. It was the result of meticulous calculations and
so on and so forth. But none of these made sense. ......