Stephen Fry

has a nice piece on his struggles as a teenager in 1970s being gay here.

Some excerpts

It doesn't matter in the slightest whether that love is for someone of your own sex or not. Gay issues are important and I shall come to them in a moment, but they shrivel like a salted snail when compared to the towering question of love. Gay people sometimes believe (to this very day, would you credit it, young Stephen?) that the preponderance of obstacles and terrors they encounter in their lives and relationships is intimately connected with the fact of their being gay. As it happens at least 90% of their problems are to do with love and love alone: the lack of it, the denial of it, the inequality of it, the missed reciprocity in it, the horrors and heartaches of it. Love cold, love hot, love fresh, love stale, love scorned, love missed, love denied, love betrayed ... the great joke of sexuality is that these problems bedevil straight people just as much as gay. The 10% of extra suffering and complexity that uniquely confronts the gay person is certainly not incidental or trifling, but it must be understood that love comes first. This is tough for straight people to work out.

More on Assam issue

here..

 

Some Excerpts

What is far harder to dismiss is the Congress’ contribution to the build-up of tension over the years through its cynical exploitation of minority politics, which manifests itself in its refusal to acknowledge that illegal immigration is a problem. As Assam’s Sentinel newspaper noted in an editorial, the Congress has over the years been responsible for “changing the demographic profile of the state and making the minorities a majority community… (because of unabated influx of Bangladeshis with geometric population growth) in several districts.”

And that cynical project, of actively feeding off minority politics, continues to this day.

In that sense, Digvijaya Singh is right. Assam is no Gujarat, but not for the reasons that he’s cited.  Assam is far worse than Gujarat: perhaps not in terms of the cynical arithmetic of the death toll from one episode of riots, but in the manner in which the Congress has milked ‘minority politics’ in Assam for years and years and deliberately downplayed the security risks from the unchecked illegal immigration from Bangladesh.

 

 

We can't call a spade a spade in India

because if you do you might not win elections!

A nice article on the violence in the Northeast. Oh dont worry nobody is accussing the secular party of anything. The media elite have more time for other stuff, not stuff that matters.

Anyway.. so the rule continues..

I am speechless

A blog by Mani Shankar Aiyar on his travel to USA. For a guy, who is part of the cabinet that is in power in one of the poorest countries i the world to make fun of the US is plain ridiculous!

And look at the classism statements he makes

Democracy in America apparently means the right of the lower orders to be rude to their social superiors. This goes by the name of “customer care”.

The guy does not relaize that equality first of all means no social structures! Just because 100 people are not running around the MP giving him VIP treatment he feels USA is inferior! Well, for all the secular people supporting the crap of the government Good luck. Your next leader has arrived! Go chant his name - Mani Shankar Aiyar!

 The full atrocity here.

Link via retributions

Even after such incidents

people in the US will not understand that the archaic Second Amendment should not exist. 

The ability to purchase such volumes of ammunition and guns sitting at home is somehow unbelievable. I mean make it a little harder; so that there are hints to the polic that some guy has gone nuts! For god's sake, if purchasing the guns were harder the nutcase would have found something else. I mean common! For no fault of theirs so many people who went to watch a movie perished. But still Americans for guns will argue if everybody had guns some person would have been able to shoot the guy. But it is just stupid talk. People do not go out everywhere with their guns; at least I hope they don't. Life should not be so scary!

Anyway!

What more can one say

Views | Cricket diplomacy or convenient passivity?

This is how we deal with the brutal hypocrisy of Pakistan. Well, as long as we have cricket who cares.

Wimbledon

Its that time of the year again. Will it be 17 or not is the most importnat question for tomorrow.

Go Feddie!

A nice preview from the folks at Wimbledon here