Aditya Kumar’s Weblog
“Indira’s killers are being hailed as ‘martyrs’, in New Zealand’s largest gurdwara”, screams the first line of this report, online at Timesofindia.com. The report originates from Melbourne and that makes me wonder what is with Australia and the Indian media.
Titled “Shaheed Bhai” - or martyr brother - the paintings of Satwant and Beant along [...]
Yesterday evening, at Reliance Timeout, for launch of Dilip D’souza’s book, “Roadrunner”, there was a very insightful conversation that happened. We had the author along with India’s best historian, Ramachandra Guha and Rahul Dravid talking about India, America, about few of the the many dots that connect the two democracies and how this particular book [...]
One year since the November 26 2008 carnage that happened in Mumbai and we have already found more important things to talk about.
We have, for example, witnessed a “furore in the House” (as promised) when one MLA chose to take his oath in another language but Marathi. We witnessed how a few elected to the [...]
In the last 6 years, a critically acclaimed actor (who is a khan too), an actor who is a Punjabi and a Hindu, the other two “bankable” khans of the Indian film industry, a model-turned-actor (a Christian) and a former, and arguably the most respected, President of India, were all frisked at US Airports by [...]
A few hours before Independence day, watching Attenborough’s Gandhi, I am left with a few more observations and questions.
Gandhi united our country, north to south, east to west. He walked, people followed. Today, 62 years after Gandhi, we are falling apart. We have long forgotten that we are Indians first. We have made it very [...]
Three years ago, a professor in Ujjain, was beaten in front of the cameras. He died on the way to the hospital, succumbing to a cardiac arrest. Later that evening, the clips were shown on television.
Day before yesterday, all six accused walked free. Reason? Lack of evidence.
This, after the crime was committed and caught [...]
When Varun Gandhi made that speech at Pilibhit, Indian Politics hit a new low. Its a shame that the great-grandson of the late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, architect of the modern day democracy that India is, has even uttered those words. It goes on to show how politics of hate is ruling the country, irrespective [...]
