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Disappointing "Times"

Yesterday, as usual I fetched the two newspapers left at our doorstep. I opened "Sakal", the marathi daily which we generally read. It carried a story of "Bharat Ratna" as its main headline. In fact, it filled its upper half of front page. Congrats to one of India's greatest singers ever, Bhimsen Joshi for getting this honour. On that happy note, I shifted my attention to Hindustan Times. And well what do I find? Obama and Mc'Cain had taken over their headlines. Ok, some of you might say, "HT" is an english daily, so it has the so called "global" reach. Well.. Fair enough..Can you explain why there was just 2-3 lines of mention of Bhrat Ratna, that too in the corner. Even today they have not rolled out any details about Joshi's music career. And you know what, they even had a story about Gambhir's request to stall his 1 match suspesion being denied. Was this story more important than Bharat Ratna? In fact, did this story actually...

Dirty Politics

Its been a complete mess in Pakistan with the emergency imposed. As an Indian if you think that you live in better place, then think again. Look at the “state” of Karnataka. I mean, the way BJP and JD(S) have been functioning for last 2 months or so, its really a shameful chapter in Indian democracy. If you still what I am talking about then listen to this. JD(S) cheif Deve Gowda had established a coalition govertment with Congress 3 years ago. But 12 months in to power, his son decided that they had enough of secular agenda and went to BJP. Now, initially Gowda opposed this move, but later retracted his statements saying it is for the betterment of Karnataka. They had a power sharing “agreement” with BJP, which meant first the Janata Dal will have its CM for 18 months and for next 18 months BJP. Everything was going along nicely until, the time to handover the pwoer to BJP came closer. Gowda father and son accused BJP of trying to kill them and refused tranfer power. Now, in such ...