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The Nandigram 101

I have been waiting for this for a while: A complete analysis of what has been going on in Nandigram.
Greatbong has written exactly that – what are the root causes, the role of Trinamool and Maoists, the role of CPI(M), Buddhadeb and the Bengali intelligentsia.
This is not the kind of stuff that you hear [...]

Pseudo secular media and Nandigram: What they are saying about Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

The ‘pseudo secular’ media is keeping totally quiet about Buddhadeb and Nandigram. Not a peep out of them. Some of them, in fact, are reporting that it is a ‘reaction’ to the ‘action’, initiated by violent Maoists and the CPI(M) retaliation was spontaneous, and entirely natural.
Not!

According to this screenshot, taken at 11.05 PM on 14th [...]

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the Modi of West Bengal

There, I said it.

The scale may be smaller in the case of Nandigram. But the basic fact is the same. There was violence by a large group against a much smaller group. There were deaths, more on the side of the smaller group. There was looting, there was rape. No one knows the details; Buddhadeb, [...]

Has Musharraf just sealed his own coffin?

Or purchased his own one-way ticket out of the country?
I am really disappointed in this man. And also in Pakistanis. Musharraf squandered his big opportunity to finally turn Pakistan into a modern democratic nation, and Pakistanis squandered away their chance to decide the direction their country should take.
Musharraf, after he got rid of Navaz Sharif [...]

How about a privilege motion against incompetent diplomacy?

Continuing on the theme of my last post.
Today I heard that Arun Shourie is going to file a privilege motion against the PM Dr Manmohan Singh for misleading parliament on the nuclear issue. More specifically for claiming in parliament that India can conduct nuclear testing if it wants, and that the 123 Nuclear agreement is [...]

India – US 123 nuclear agreement nonsense as Singh and US differ on testing

First of all, I do not claim to know much about the Indo-US 123 Nuclear Co-operation agreement. So this post is not about that at all.
But there has been something that Dr Manmohan Singh and proponents of the 123 agreement in India have been claiming. They say that India has the right to conduct nuclear [...]