Sharad Pawar slapped by one Harviner Singh

Things often have a way of surprising you and this is one such thing. Just when every body thought throwing shoes (& chappals) at politicians was the de facto method of registering your anger towards them, Harvinder Singh comes along and surprises us with one tight one for our Agriculture Minister cum ICC president.

Whatever his methods, at the end of the day what this man did was register his anger towards one of the leaders of his country on whom he was depending to make things better for him. Soon after watching this I heard Pranab Mukharjee on TV shaking his head and saying where is this country heading. I agree with him on this not being the right way to protest about anything but Mr Finance Minister, maybe its time you, the rest of the politicians and big business people of India realize that the huge divide between your kind and our kind (aam admi kind) is hurting people too much now.

While not each one of us will engage in vulgar display of this sort but maybe when we go out to take part in candle night vigils against searing issues its like hurling a shoe at you  and when we take part in huge numbers in rallies of activists like Anna Hazare, maybe its what can be called a slap on not just the government but the entire system of things in this country. Will you ever care? I doubt you will... sigh

Centre tries its best to avert Ramdev's fast

Well this congress government is pathetic

UPA II in deep shit and I'm loving it

This is just going to be a celebratory post from me - an ardent CONgress hater.

 Though I haven't had the time to blog for a while now, I still have been staying in touch with the news and well... the 2g scam, the Wikileaks bombs, the Antrix episode, the PJ Thomas affair, MMS's chirharan in both houses and the trouble with Mamata all of these have of late given me immense satisfaction of a perverse nature, thought I'd just share these thoughts with the world. Its not like I am a big NDA fan but again, I most certainly am a big CONgress hater and it therefore so so pleases me to see it being done over doggie style like this ... hardcore, I tell ya. I hope it does not stop till after the elections next year

Devas rightly threatens to sue the Government

The communications and multimedia media company Devas which entered into a deal for 70 Mhz's of the S-band spectrum has now again threatened that it will take strong, including legal action to protect its deal with ISRO. On a day when Mr. Prime Minister ManMohan Singh has already admitted to making several mistakes in governing this country including giving into its coalition ally's just so the Government can stay in power and then has been severely thrashed both by the BJP's Nitin Gadkari and the Left's Prakash Karrat for a whole range of things, this comes as yet another hard hard blow to which this Government is all hands down and chin up. It would have been K.O if elections were just around the corner but fortunately for UPA, there's time. What is interesting in this one is that Ramachandran Viswanathan the CEO of Devas had about a few weeks ago in an interview with Timesnow's editor in chief Arnab Goswami had said that since they (Devas) had not received any communication from the Government about the termination of the deal, as far as Devas is concerned, the deal was on but when Arnab had asked him about going to court over the deal, he had skipped the question. This time however, the CEO of Devas has taken kiddy gloves of and issued this aggressive threat. What one feels naturally is that this Government is in a bunker one way or another with the ISRO S-band deal just as it is with its 2G deal. The incredible thing really is that because the deal has already been signed and there is no prima facie evidence of any wrong doing on the part of Devas at least, (not yet anyway) they do have a contract which is legally binding and if the Government now chooses to cancel the deal, Devas has every right to take the Government to court over it.

Coalition Dharma vs Rajya Dharma

So, today was the over hyped Prime Minister ManMohan Singh's press conference where he took questions from leading news editors in India. An exercise which to me seemed very choreographed except at few times when Arnab Goswami from the Timesnow channel and the editor from Zee news channel whose name I do not know grilled the PM. But aside from reiterating most times the often towed line of his party leaders, he said nothing much new. To me the impression that the PM and his Government sought to give was that look we admit that there has been mistakes which have resulted in poor governance, an attempt to cover it up and finally we have been arrogantly non apologetic for these but know that there are compulsions like those of ruling through a coalition which we face. At one point when while replying to a question on the 2G scam, he said that the Government of the day in India is bound by 'coalition dharma' as coalition politics has become a reality of modern politics in India.

Will Mayawati hold on in 2012 UP Elections?

After erecting massive statues of herself all over UP and that issue about garlands Mayawati now proceeds to use her security men as a tabalchi - a name for shoe cleaners and menders in the Army during the British Raj.

It may have been going on for some time now but this act was caught on camera yesterday. Yes, that is what it is, prior to rally, Mayawati has been caught on camera clearly pointing to her footwear, the effect of which is that the Deputy Superintendent of Police rushes to her, produces a piece of cloth and then proceeds to clean her sandals. Sigh! wish we could have such loyal DSP's for ourselves, but we don't because well.. I don't know. Here's the video showing the security officer cleaning Mayawati's shoes.

Gujarat and its Controversial leader Narrendra Modi

A populist leader of Gujarat Modi hopes to remake his troubled image an excellent piece in the Economist about Narrendra Modi, his attempts to repair his image and the reason he has to do it, his unabashed trashing by the media in India. As it rightly points out, the richest men in the world like Mukesh Ambani will shower praise on him but the India media and the opposition in Gujarat and the Government in the center will miss no chances to trash his image and brand him as a cold blooded murderer.

The Iron Man of India & Gujarat - Narrendra Modi