It is out of step with reality and harmful for the credibility of the world's most powerful cricketer for him to maintain silence. His name needs to be cleared, by him or by his bosses. They will not be in contempt of court if they do so but they could be in contempt of the public if they do not.Full piece here.
He is that sort of man, the sort who will give you a hurt look if you politely turn down his offer of tea at his house, the sort who will apologise if he couldn't pick up your call. "So sorry, but I was out with family."...As representative was the muted celebration. He looked as if he felt he would antagonise the world if he displayed a shred more emotion than the low limit he had set. A few of his friends were watching from the wooden benches at the Basin, and they had set no such limits.
They wept openly, and happily. And for once, you could say with conviction that it couldn't have happened to a nicer man.
Holi [is] the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries. (the now defunct Microsoft Encarta)Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviours such as war in order to relieve "mother Earth" of its burdensome human population. (A lecture in 2000 entiteld The Complicity of God in the Destruction of the Human Race) Rama had a fear of following his sex-addict father Dasharatha’s footsteps, which made him betray his own sexuality, which in turn made him abandon Sita. Ganesha’s large belly is a proof of the Hindu male's enormous appetite for oral sex. (Paul Courtright, in his book on Ganesha)I mean these are seriously ridiculous statements - that should not have been taken seriously. But by banning a book of this nature - you are allowing for the author to achieve notoriety - if the book was actually in public domain people would recognize her/his lack of academic rigor and evaluate the book for what it actually is - drivel.
In the absence of a political ideology, however broadly defined, this is impossible to do. And what you get instead is a party that speaks in multiple tongues, and hopes to pass off political opportunism as pluralism and the resultant confusion as diversity.
http://suvojitchattopadhyay.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/the-missing-counterfactual-in-indian-politics/
Yes, we dont have any counter factual data. However, we have the impact of stupid policies. Policies that are different from what BJP is proposing which have led to the large current account deficit and inflation. Can't you see that. I mean personal bias is going to affect anybody's writing. But to put out such biased drivel is .wow. Unbelievable .
Going by the authors argument the sitting government however inefficient or corrupt is the better option because we don't know what the unknown is going to be. I mean common!
