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Let's dump our politicians, the self-seeking ones, at any rate.
All they seem to be capable of is big talk, bluster and blunders.
While the nation slides alarmingly on the Human Development Index
ladder, they are in the game only to line their pockets. India would
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 VAJPAYEE'S
POETRY
It's actually good to have a Prime Minister who finds the time to
express his innermost thoughts in verse, no matter what the quality
is, but when bad governance is piled upon bad poetry, it is surely
asking for trouble. It would serve the nation better if Atalji were
to pour some of his poetic sensibility into India's polity rather
than wasting it on paper |
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 PAKISTAN
A cruel joke that history played on us has left India exposed to
a hostile neighbour whose very existence hinges on the politics
of conflict. Will the headache ever go away? We can try to bury
the hatchet and live like good neighbours. Or just will Pakistan
away!
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 I&B
MINISTRY
In a democracy, information should be absolutely free without the
government intervening at any stage of its dissemination. So what's
an Information Ministry doing in India in this day & age?
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 CRICKET
Now that's a tough one. Isn't cricket a religion in India, a sport
that binds the entire nation together? It certainly does, but it
also stops other sporting disciplines from getting their deserved
place in the Indian sun. And that's not cricket! |
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 SAAS-BAHU
SERIALS
These domestic intrigue serials have no place in an evolved society
unless you are generous enough to see them as a cure for insomnia |
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 FILM
CENSORS
Who needs a bunch of fuddy-duddies to tell us what we should watch
and what we shouldn't. If we have the freedom to vote criminals
to our legislatures, we can surely be trusted to choose the films
we want, even if some of them don't measure to what self-styled
moral guardians deem as acceptable. |
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 TV
GAME SHOWS
With the insufferable games that politicians play confronting couch
potatoes on prime time night after night, who needs shows that get
deadly serious over real games? |
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 CANDYFLOSS
ROMANCES
They are the greatest stumbling blocks in Hindi cinema's path to
true greatness. Dreams without substance do have a way of going
bust. Which explains the preponderance of box-office duds that Bollywood
has churned out in recent years. Candyfloss kitsch is never as cushy
as it seems, and it is far glummer than it appears |
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