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Reflections: October 2005
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IAS officers from Vokkaliga. I was reading T V R Shenoy's column in Rediff titled The decline of Bangalore. And one strange sentence caught me off guard. The relevant portion is reproduced here (note in italics. A few months ago, he ( S M Krishna. Was invited to a function to congratulate newly selected IAS officers from the Vokkaliga community, scarcely an official duty of the governor of Maharashtra! The Vokkaligas and the Lingayats by far the two most powerful castes in Karnataka politics.) . True to ...
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Reflections: June 2005
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Thirukkural storming the world of fashion. Carried a news item on Thirukkural (ancient Tamil couplets written by poet Thiruvalluvar) making its appearance in the T-shirts to be exported to Italy. According to the report Dhanam's knit garments based in Tirupur, TamilNadu exports these T-shirts apart from selling it in India under the brand name of Team Spirit. Posted by Baskaran Sankaran @ 21:31. Views of Sudheendra Kulkarni. After it was published in Indian Express. Way of pseudo-secularists or increasin...
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Reflections: May 2005
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Dissolution of Bihar assembly - Congress pastime back again. After all, dismissing the non-congress governments IS. The congress pastime since independence. But, now there is a little difference, the left and other aliies are supporting the congress openly; in the name of preventing NDA from coming to power in Bihar. Probably, the congress allies together with Indian communists - followers of a dead theory. Posted by Baskaran Sankaran @ 03:54. Dealing with Lalu - Will NDA learn from its mistakes? A press...
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Reflections: September 2005
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Oracle and National ID cards. A report in Business World. On Sep 26, 2005 claims "Oracle India to issue national identity cards" as part of National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). It was also reported in a popular mailing list dedicated for e-Governance in India - India-eGov. The report further states that Oracle India will be assisted by Home ministry in this under the Multipurpose National Identity Cards (MNIC) project. Nothing could sound more ridiculous than this, if this report is indeed true. Andrew Orl...
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Reflections: July 2006
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Hoardings for publicity - Midday way. Not very often, do you see a very creaative and captivating ideas in hoardings. Don't you get tired at seeing ads with women displaying their jwellery or saree or to read scores of lines on some Insurance product. I would have voted for Airtel and Worldspace hoardings and may be to some extent for Hutch too in the recent past, for having some imagination and new idea. And, I am tempted to add these:. 150 Cr Alleged Bribery. 1941 Cr Proposed Airport.
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Reflections: April 2005
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The strange case of Zahira and Teesta. Source: http:/ in.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/28guest.htm. The strange case of Zahira and Teesta. April 28, 2005. Ow that the hullabaloo over the US denial of a visa. The possibility that 1,300 'victims' never existed certainly calls for a rethink on the Gujarat imbroglio. The media has never told us how Qutubuddin Ansari made it out of the chawl alive, why he alone from his family fled to Mumbai, who settled him there, and who indicated it was safe to come back. S...
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Reflections: July 2005
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Indian Medicines - Part 2. Some of you might have read my earlier article on " Indian Medicines. I guess I am entirely right in pointing out the need for standardisation in the said piece. Carried a news about Canada banning the ayurvedic drugs from India, after detecting the presence of metals (lead, mercury and arsenic) in higher levels by Health Canada (Canadian equivalent of US FDA). Here is the story. Posted by Baskaran Sankaran @ 03:02. Coastal Regulation Zone and T R Baalu - Then and Now. T N Sesh...
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Reflections: June 2006
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Human values: Do we have anything left? Today its Saturday and I was casually browsing the web, before I stumbled on the headline Honeymoon murder: Bride guides groom’s ‘killers’ route via SMS. Killling her husband and robbing her valuables. The police solves the case, thanks to an alert auto driver hired by the killers. Drama by the girl proves their level of planning to cleverly escape from the police. You might remember about the gruesome killing. Where are we heading? Well, its about dynastic politic...
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Reflections: August 2005
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Leave Mr. Chidambaram undisturbed. The matter that finance minister Chidambaram's wife appearing in a case for CBDT has become the latest problem to affect the normal functioning of the Parliament. Without deviating from their stereotype behaviour, the opposition- BJP specifically aims for his head. This hue and cry should stop forthwith and he should be allowed to do his job. Posted by Baskaran Sankaran @ 19:58. Where he says that his party is trying to change the 'mindset' of workers. He goes furth...
