Interesting article

http://www.livemint.com/Page/Id/2.0.2440492673

As always there is never an easy solution.

More drivel from Aakar Patel

"Beyond Narendra Modi’s oratory is a vapid message - Livemint" http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/X6EUiJaewMnIgBvmg6GNBI/Beyond-Narendra-Modis-oratory-is-a-vapid-message.html

So well put

"Indians should separate Narendra Modi from the message - Livemint" http://feedly.com/k/11jQ8j2

I completely agree with this view. India can do without Modi - but to do away with his view of governance will destroy India forever. Congress lost the last decade - we just can't afford to lose one more!

Will anything come of this?

"U.S. hearings on Lashkar-e-Taiba" http://filtercoffee.nationalinterest.in/2013/06/13/u-s-hearings-on-lashkar-e-taiba/

Not a bad piece

questioning Modi's reformist credentials here

Some of the points raised are very important. But, I still feel that there is a sense of market conviction in his speeches and make sense relative to other politicians. But, is it enough?

Isn't this hypocrisy?

Recently, India's most well-known film script-writer Salim Khan (actor Salmaan Khan's father) has said to a senior journalist in an interview: "Does anyone remember who the chief minister of Maharashtra was during the Mumbai riots which were no less deadly than the Gujarat riots of 2002? Does anyone recall the name of the chief minister of UP during Malliana and Meerut riots or that of the Bihar CM when the Bhagalpur or Jamshedpur riots under Congress regimes took place? Do we hear names of earlier chief ministers of Gujarat under whose charge, hundreds of riots took place in post-Independence India? Does anyone remember who was in-charge of Delhi's security when the 1984 massacre of Sikhs took place in the capital of India? How come Narendra Modi has been singled out as the Devil Incarnate as if he personally carried out all the killings during the riots of 2002?" No speck of doubt about what Salim Khan has said.

So why is Modi singled out? I ask all the secularists to ask themeselves this question. I am not convinced Modi is the right person for our country, but the criticism mounted on him does feel uneven (especilly when so many others who watched over communal riots have gone scot free).

Full piece here

Sometimes

things dont fall in place!

A fabulous piece

on NaMo here