Srinagar, March 24 – Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has expressed hope that tourists from all over the country and abroad would visit the Tulip Garden at Srinagar in the days to come to enjoy the fantastic charms provided when about 12 lakh tulips of different varieties and colours would be in […]
India: All is not well on Valentine Day
The Valentine Day celebration in India on February 14 is turning out to be an interesting event to be watched. A flurry of activities is taking place on in both the camps for and those against the V Day celebrations and clash looks imminent by the kind of posturing that are going on in the […]
Lipschtick and Pigs
9 10 08 Lipschtick and Pigs By Mary Lyon Amazing what a difference a week makes. Something has changed since Sarah Palin burst into the Republican Convention and started living it up by the stiletto. It still stings to look back over her mean-spirited, scornful, barb-laden speech. Whoever once said sticks and stones might hurt […]
The Great Leveling, Phase 1
The guy interviewed on NPR this day said that once our “credit crunch” is resolved in America, people will race out and buy homes. He’s wrong, as are economists who believe this. Rapidly increasing numbers of consumers are finding themselves irreparably strapped financially — and market profits dominoes have already begun to fall. But this […]
Problems of Communism
That was like Holy Roman Empire – metaphorically neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire in essence. And there was no Gibbon to tell the world the truth of the rise and fall of Soviet Empire. The Soviet Empire collapsed under its burdens of unholy catastrophes that had inflicted the communistic system since it very inception […]
Basic Instinct: Under the rain Tree
Book Extract: Under The Rain Tree ISBN: 9788122309812 Author: Vatsala Balachandran Warrier Publisher: Cedar books (www.pustakmahal.com) Basic Instinct It was the day of the rally. The vast sands of the Marina Beach in Chennai were packed with a seething mass of humanity. Overhead, the sun blazed in all its fury, baking the sand red-hot. Dust […]