Licence to drive,
everywhere
By M J AKBAR | February
6, 2010
An Opposition
talks [when it is not dumb]. Government acts [when it is not
indolent]. A Government is measured by what it does. The Government of
Maharashtra says that Mumbai belongs to every Indian, but decides that
its 24,000 taxi licences belong only to a language-specific group.
There is the usual fudge around the decision, typical of a Government
which wants to hunt with the Shiv Sena and run with the Bihari vote.
OUT
OF TURN (SIEGE
WITHIN)
- Times of India Column
Danger from the New
Brahmins
By M J Akbar
| February 7, 2010
Indian democracy is in danger of subversion by a self-confident,
aggressive, articulate, patriotic and well-meaning force, the
oligarchy of the successful. It might be a mild exaggeration to
suggest that its principal characteristics are aftershave and English.
"How do you define peace? If peace means an absence of formal
war then India and Pakistan are at peace. But clearly that's an
inadequate definition of peace. We know it in our instincts."
I've
changed my mind about the Soviet Union
Would the Bush-Blair partnership have invaded Iraq with such impunity if
Uncle Stalin or Cousin Brezhnev had been around?
India and Pakistan often relate to each other through a whole spectrum
of words. And while these exchanges only pose more questions, they
also leave us with one. Is there an answer at all?
MJ Akbar and Zahid
Hussain kicked off the Aman ki Asha literary exchange festival in New
Delhi. (Aman ki Asha TOI initiative)
I have been
following your articles with great interest for a very long time. Most
of your articles are thought provoking and written after a great deal
of in depth study.
.......has
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shivering six-year old with bandages across his face
like a zebra crossing, to the Anugrah Narain Magadh
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