“I had such an immense faith in Mr. Kumaraswamy in the past 20 months that when some people suspected that he might not hand over power to the BJP, I said that even if God appeared before me and said that Mr. Kumaraswamy was going to ditch me, I would not believe it. But, finally, he let me down.”
- Yadiyurappa ([:http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/14/stories/2007101455320600.htm|The Hindu, 14/10/2007])
Karan Thapar: What I am saying is rather than ask the Prime Minister not to operationalise the deal, the power to stop the operationalisation is in your hands. If you withdraw support, the government ceases to exist and can’t sign the deal on the dotted line. So if you want it stopped, then you have the power to do so. Are you serious about this or not?
Sitaram Yechury: My agenda is the deal and your agenda seems to be the government. My agenda is not about which government will sign the deal, but what it contains and that is what I want it changed.
( [:http://ibnlive.com/news/devils-advocate-123-deal-sell-out-to-us-says-yechury/47107-3-p0.html|Devil's Advocate] - IBNLive. )
Whenever I watch Devil's Advocate on ibnlive, I can't suppress the annoyance the good old anchor (Karan Thapar) causes by doing all the talking. Even the conclusions seem to be made straight in front of the camera by none other than the anchor. How sensible is it to invite someone for a talk and not let them talk much? Shouldn't they at least have the sensibility to leave conclusions to the viewers?
Searching around for Greg Chappel’s email thats leaked out to the public, I could find a copy of it on quite a few blogs, already.
By the look of it, Greg Chappel’s e-mail pumps in a lot of sense unto picturizing whats really been happening around.
I wouldn’t blame Greg Chappel if he needs some fresh air in the team, nor to his intention of getting fresh blood to battle it out in the center. But he should have addressed this situation in a better way rather than conveying the displeasure directly to the heavily powerful, highly backed ‘Captain’ of the team. He should have at least had a bit of air of the bureaucracy thats fogging around in the Indian Cricket world, in last few months he has served in the Indian Camp. The prevailing system can go down to a degree of utter stupidity, which might even turn a legendary hand into ‘a bad thing to happen for Indian Cricket’.
John Wright knew it. He knew exactly well how things are run here, how they’re taken forward. “Its ‘India’, my dear fellow… control yourself” - he might have probably told to himself. But Greg Chappel is brave. Brave enough to fight the lousy system and hopeful enough to emerge colorful out of it. Lets just hope he does!
As conspicuous as it can get, Ganguly has been using the sympathy of fans as an excuse to stay on. Anybody who had watched him on Zimbabwe tour would have spotted him as a 'looser', and not as the Ganguly we watched in the days of Sahara Cup in Canada. Instead of correcting his demeanor, he’s been trying to term others wrong and apparently misleading the fans, too.
Shame, Captain.
'Heavy rains' mean 'power cuts' in Bangalore. Guess its even worse a situation in other cities and towns of the state. Situation in rural areas must be horrifying! People living in cities (except ofcourse, Mumbai), with access to all amenities might never get a feel of those folks who've had a hard time fighting the nature's wrath this time of the year. It hurts just not to have power for 2- 3 hours... can't imagine the agony of folks who don't have it for days, weeks... leave alone the agony caused by water flooding their homes.
People in India have probably got accustomed to seeing submerged towns, drowning villages and homeless people in their daily news. The haraunguing minister does an "aerial survey" and gets to top the news headlines! ;No bother. Power cuts are no big deal in comparision to what people in rural India are facing in these heavy rains.
Why isn't there any mention of India's Independence on BBC's August 15 On this day archive? Perhaps its just too obvious, or just that BBC doesn't consider it a significant event. This is a shame, considering the fact that lot many people opine - the media gaint is 'unbiased'.
UPDATE: ah, it seems that I missed this part:
On This Day is a showcase of some of the most significant as well as some of the quirkier stories broadcast by BBC News since 1950 and now including a new World War II section.
from this page (emphasis mine).
They should perhaps name this feature "On this day from 1950 - " + worldwar or something, then ;) The title sounds highly inappropriate.
Why do we ignore all this when talking about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar? Why do we see him just as a racist and a conspirer of an assasination? I feel there's more to this personality than just that.
