Parties

CPI-M has an issue. They got only 16 seats and are 8th. But still want to dictate the country's agendas.  read more »

Kerala's politics is changing and that has triggered internal warring within CPI-M. Now the politburo is meeting to solve issues.  read more »

Some politicians are sooo lost in their ego games! They seem to have lost touch even with reality. It is deeply pitiable to see.

This was brought very clearly to me when I saw a news item on a TV Channel that fomer Prime Minister Dev Gowda has written a letter to Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik to join third front.  read more »

Today my son, Navpreet, told me an interesting old news. It was a few months old statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - right after the Mumbai attacks to be exact, when he was being pressed by all and sundry to attack Pakistan.

Manmohan Singh had said interalia that the war with Pakistan would require around 10000 crores of Rupees and he was arranging for that sum to wage war against Pakistan. Needless to say, the economist in Manmohan Singh saved the day and India somehow avoided the needless war.  read more »

As I am just sitting in my bed in silent mode with morning cuppa in hand the Hindi TV Channel Starnews is showing Lalu Ji on Stone laying spree. In the background the Channel is giving the captions like "Shilanayas lagane mein jute Lalu Ji," "Kahin elan na ho jaye" meaning thereby that Lalu Ji is trying to lay the stones in a hurry to beat the day when elections will be declared and politicians like him will no longer be allowed to indulge in such pre-poll gimmickery.  read more »