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Rote Learning dumbs down Indians (Part I)

2012-01-22T22:13:00.000+05:30

The last great invention or discovery made by Indians was zero. After a spell of modicum greatness in the remote part of history where Indians contributed to mathematics, medicine, astronomy (don’t confuse this with astrology), we had a brief awakening movement in the first half of 20th century under British Empire when Indians earnestly took up European kind of education without feeling any

Mayawati and Made Snana

2012-01-22T11:47:00.001+05:30

Mayawati, Elephants and Election Commission Recently, the Election Commission in India took up a massive exercise to drape all the elephant statues erected by Mayawati because the symbol of BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) happens to be an elephant. The Chief Election Commission (CEC) justified this move as an appropriate step ‘to ensure the statues do not disturb the level playing field and

Go back Rushdie, You are not welcome here

2012-01-21T13:06:00.000+05:30

Dear Mr. Salman Rushdie: You are not welcome in our country. Though we are the ‘greatest country’ with the ‘greatest culture’ we are an insecure lot. Please don’t try to analyze why the greatest culture can be so insecure – you will not understand that. In our country, most of the ‘greatest’ men and women happen to be extremely insecure. They constantly pay their deities money

Run away from Indian Flag

2011-11-21T11:51:00.001+05:30

Though Indians got their freedom on 15th August 1947, Indian Flag is still not free. It is chained with sanctity, incarcerated by tradition, guarded zealously by peevish Indians whose only claim to greatness is their orthodoxy and antiquity. Though Naveen Jindal fought to set Indian Flag free, allowing ordinary Indians to raise the flag, it still remains inaccessible to the common man.

Wake Up, Telangana

2011-11-16T08:21:00.001+05:30

We will not get Telangana. We won’t get Telangana because we are not qualified to get Telangana. No state will be given to those people who don’t even know how to fight for a separate state. Naïve Telangana Telanganas can be generalized into a category called ‘naïve’. Three hundred and fifty lakh naïve people are led by equally naïve leaders. We believe in things too easily –

Declaration of State of Telangana

2011-10-31T10:41:00.000+05:30

The concepts of human rights, human dignity, self-rule and self-determination are quite modern. Such concepts did not exist in the ancient world. Even if we were to find a glimpse of these concepts discussed in philosophies and texts of the ancients, we do not necessarily see its implementation as a comprehensive and extended practice to actually alter the lives of the people. For

I am the Movement...

2011-10-28T15:41:00.000+05:30

[Original Contribution by Dileep Konatham]. As a Telanganite: I will not lose my cool when someone talks negatively about Telangana Movement. I will not get agitated by anti-Telangana "news" in the regional and national media. I will not respond to foolish questions on why Telangana is needed. I will not condemn my leadership on frivolous issues. This will only dilute our cause. I

Andhra Pradesh is not a ‘marriage’

2011-10-13T14:17:00.001+05:30

While describing the merger of Telangana and Andhra State in 1956 that resulted in formation of Andhra Pradesh, we tend to use metaphors like calling it ‘marriage of unequals’, or describing it as ‘an innocent girl married to naughty boy’. Nehru purportedly said that this ‘marriage’ could be annulled through a ‘divorce’ at any point of time in future. While such comparisons make poetic

Cartoon 2: KCR with Manmohan Singh

2011-10-05T16:58:00.003+05:30

Cartoon1: Sakala Janula Samme

2011-10-05T14:17:00.002+05:30

Telanganas will not let go of Hyderabad

2011-10-03T23:33:00.000+05:30

It is the foolishness of New Delhi and the arrogance of Samaikhyandhra proponents to suggest that Hyderabad may be centrally-ruled or be the joint-capital of two new states. This proposal comes from a gross misunderstanding of the current sentiment of Telangana people both by New Delhi and by the Samaikhyandhra leaders. All these days when Telangana agitations did not spillover into

It was Anna, not Janlokpal Bill

2011-09-01T20:53:00.000+05:30