7 29 08 I Dreamed I Had a Bull’s-Eye on My Back By Mary Lyon Dear Messers O’Reilly, Hannity, and Savage, Congratulations. You sure did it this time. You’re the New Century answer to J.D. Salinger, now that an admirer/acolyte of yours has gunned down two people and injured several others in a senseless assault […]
Can’t Take a Joke
7 16 08 Can’t Take a Joke By Mary Lyon "Outside of basic intelligence, there is nothing more important to a good political cartoonist than ill will." –Jules Pfeiffer Evidently there’s a lot of surprising ill will with the latest New Yorker magazine cover. That’s gotta be Barack Mohammed Obama there, right? (See! I KNEW […]
Communist Regime in West Bengal Versus Mamata Banerjee
The Left Front led by Communist Party of India (Marxist), popularly known as CPM has completed 31 years of Governance in West Bengal this June’08 uninterrupted from June-1977. It is ironical that 1977 marked the end of Indian National Congress (INC) rule of 25 years at the Center from 1952 while the year1977 […]
Organ Donation : Reincarnating Ourselves
Many years ago, there used to be a minister in West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu’s cabinet by the name of Benoy Choudhury. He used to be the deputy chief minister at one point and was responsible for all the land reforms carried out in the early years of the Left Front government. An austere, […]
XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA
XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA The brutal apartheid era practice of setting opponents on fire has been revived in this country’s crowded, litter-strewn shantytowns. But now the victims are foreign migrants. Anger over unemployment and rising prices and simmering resentment against illegal foreign migrants exploded into a xenophobic violence in South Africa, with […]
dacoit burnt alive by mob
A suspected robber was on Saturday beaten and burnt to death by an angry mob at the Five Star Roundabout, North Nazimabad, while his accomplice was seriously injured. Two policemen who tried to rescue them were also thrashed by the public. Police said after looting a mini-bus of route W-25, the two robbers were fleeing […]
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