- Organizers behind armed white supremacist protest in Houston revealed as Russian
The organizers behind armed white supremacist protests in Houston were revealed as Russian. That Putin's Russia is interfering in other countries' politics is old news.
What should be discussed more is the failure of …
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- U.S. Vice President uses $250,000 of taxpayer's money to go and stage protest at a football game
The ethics watchdog in U.S. has critized U.S. Vice President Mike Pence of misusing government travel to Colts game , just to stage a walkout of the game, a wasteful exercise in grandstanding too. The cost $250,000 is ju…
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- Referendums for secession a trend?
While Catalans fight to set up their own nation, news has come of "The South Is My Country", a movement where Brazilians in the south have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country.
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- More than 80 anti-Putin rallies took place across Russia on Putin's Birthday
More than 260 people were detained across Russia as jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny's supporters staged protest rallies on Vladimir Putin's 65th birthday. Mr. Navalny has won a substantial following in Russia wit…
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- What government warnings are most useful?: Start with 'politics isn't about policy'
From an interesting discussion at Marginal Revolution over government regulator warnings that are most useful. From the list:
“Driving is dangerous”
“Fight nuclear proliferation.”
“Don’t let your kid near a bucket…
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- Annals of rich Indian lawmakers: 86% of MLAs in Punjab are crorepatis
Another evidence in support of the argument that the democratic process is not for the poor or even the middle class. The Association for Democratic Reforms reports that 101 of the Punjab’s 117 newly-elected legislators …
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- Dear Indian Media, Stop all this SP-praising
5 years ago, you all were singing same praises for Mayawati, her rainbow alliance, how she ousted SP's goonda-raj from UP. Already a losing SP candidate shot bullets in anger, people got injured.
You forget Mulayam's fa…
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- Can American style party primaries democratize our dynastic system?
Why is that people like Robert Vadra, Priyanka or whoever gets to speak with freedom on any issue related to their party when they have never held any political officePerhaps American-style party primaries can help check…
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- Ratan Tata is like the Aamir Khan of Indian Business
Aamir Khan is a sincere man. Ratan Tata is a sincere man. Both are sincere businessmen. But shrewd businessmen. Both use the power of image to push their respective businesses. One uses his image power to push mediocre f…
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- Is Nitish Kumar Really The Development Man of Bihar? - Part two
Compared to the 15-year rule of Lalloo Yadav in Bihar, any other would appear Golden. Nitish Kumar should thank Lalloo for his image as a 'Can Do' Chief Minister. It is this very Lalloo comparison that Nitish invokes on …
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- Navin Jindal and Why Youth is so overrated in Politics
It wasn't enough that Shashi Tharoor had proven quite successfully why the entry of profesionals into politics is so over-rated. Now Navin Jindal has displayed the fallacy of hoping too much from the entry of youth in p…
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- Dumb ideas of 2009 #4: The demographic dividend
Perhaps the dumbest idea of the decade. Everyone is selling you the 'Youth power' mantra, but before you pass out in the rabid nationalist delirium, time to get off the train at the halt of 'WTF'. Some 35 years back, th…
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- How Twitter is Trivializing Politics
As if politiciams were not trivlaizing things before, the New York Times writes about the habit of politicians of posting inanities and smart-ass slogans via Twitter.
The last thing Washington needs right now is poli…
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- The rising trend of Rajya Sabha as the real source of power in India
There is a valid reason why people point out that Manmohan Singh is not the people-elected leader of India. Since 1991, he is a Rajya Sabha M.P. from Assam. He has won no Lok Sabha elections in his career.
We had Rajy…
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- The Art of Building Influence in India - Part 1 - The Reliance and Infosys Way
It is very easy creating influence in India. In this occassional series, part 1 will focus on businessmen and influence. As is usual with most of my posts, I will be quick with this.
1. The Reliance way: Where you li…
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- Fan Clubs ijn South India and Elections
These are excerpts from an older blog post written by Gopala Ravindran, but worth reading if you are interested to know what is it about the numerous fan clubs and exotic sycophancy in South India:
Fan clubs in Tamil Na…
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- Is Bobby Jindal the next Sarah Palin?
Going by his response to Barrack Obama's State of the Union Address, Jindal can sure lay claim to the post of "Moron in Chief". Sample of his views: Jindal believes that monitoring potentially lethal volcanic eruptions w…
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