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Oh, the severe, languishing irony in this story.
In short, the daughter of an immigrant turns into a rabid anti-immigration politician. And then gets tired of the country she lives in and moves to another, because she’s looking for peace and contentment. (Of all the countries you can find peace and contentment in – if it [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Marketplace and All Things Current, Politics | 7 Comments »
Warning – Random political rant
Walking through Hyde Park during the pseudo-spring this country witnesses – I came across a strange prophet. It was a funny experience, as always the Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park has its share of loons and political rhetoric.
This particular chap (calling himself the Pizza Prophet) insisted it was time for [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Politics, UK | 5 Comments »
Elections are expensive.
If you have friends, you would by now have received some ten thousand forwards on this elusive little section in the People’s Representation Act – a fabled 49-O. Here’s what it says.
49-O. Elector deciding not to vote.-If an elector, after his electoral [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Governance, India, Politics, Rants and Rambles, Rights | 12 Comments »
Sometimes you read stuff that should be screenshot-ted and preserved for posterity. This is the case of the really boring and bordering on self-pity blog called Sir John Bull. Now you would expect someone who is a member of the BNP to be a complete moron. But this chap takes it way ahead. So this [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Politics, UK, wtf | 6 Comments »
There’s something so disturbing about this incident. When you read these words
A group of 20 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) workers, led by MLAs Afsar Khan, Ahmed Pasha and Mozum Khan, stormed the Press Club premises and raised slogans against the author.
They attacked her with bouquets, flower pots and virtually anything they could lay their [...]
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Books, India, Politics | 19 Comments »
Vidya sent me a link to a fabulous video at YouTube. It’s a part of a documentary called “A stranger in her city” by Khadija Al-Salami. al-Salami’s documentary follows a fabulous, spunky 13 year old girl – Najmia in Yemen. Najmia refuses to wear the veil, despite it being a social compulsion. She is laughed [...]
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Books, Culture, Gender, Politics, Rights | 3 Comments »
According to the Reporters sans frontières – Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index – 2006, India is at 105 out of 168 countries listed.
Yemen (149th) slipped four places, mainly because of the arrest of several journalists and closure of newspapers that reprinted the cartoons. Journalists were harassed for the same reason in Algeria (126th), Jordan [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Marketplace and All Things Current, Media, Politics, Rights, South Asia | 5 Comments »
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