Bollywood and Gender Equality Maybe the author has a point.

Once upon a time Bollywood (or ``Bombay Talkies``) made well crafted socially responsible movies. Sujata, Bandini, Do Bhiga Zamin all come to mind.

Why do we not find even one such movie nowadays? Or it was just one Bimal Da who was an amazing individual?

The Untruth of an Indian Majority #165

swarrier, could you tell us about the asiatic cheetah? Till when could one see a cheetah in north/central India?

There are so many moghul miniatures with depictions of Cheetah hunts, which indicates it must have been plentiful. It breaks my heart how it was wiped out.

Saviour or Tinpot Dictator? IB,

tell your friends in Sikri/Delhi, they are welcome to distribute mithai on 14th August, on Pakistan cricket team victories, what the heck, even on Jinnah`s birthday. They are welcome to paint their beards with mehndi, wear black burkha`s in the heat, slaughter cows on Eid...

... its something bigots like you (and the majority of your countrymen) will never understand.

Celebrity Courts and Kangaroo Justice #25

``...that`s so typical of the FV/LM kemps corner type of people who use flyovers all over bombay...``

If I had any doubts left, this proves for sure you are Bandra kid :)

Saving the Female Fetus #63

`` Bengali women with even a little education will dominate the household; bengali men will agree with this arrangement.``

yaar, tum sab ke samne hamari potli khun khol rahe ho :-)

Finding Kashmir\'s Pain in London #29

I wanted to point out a few things with the article.

1) the timing of the offer to help the JKLF, its ``early `87``. This was probably before or at best at the same time as the elections. Seems to me like the `87 election disaster came as no surprise to the ISI.

2) the JKLF is ofter potrayed as ``totally indegenious``, and Pakistan became involved only with Hizbul. This is a falsehood.

Finding Kashmir\'s Pain in London FYI, the rigged Kashmir assembly elections were on March 23rd, 1987

Finding Kashmir\'s Pain in London #20

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4099740.stm

Mr Khan says the ISI first made contact with the JKLF in early 1987, through the organisation`s senior leader Farooq Haider.

He says Mr Haider made a deal with the ISI whereby the JKLF was to bring young Kashmiris willing to fight Indian rule to Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

They would then be given military training and arms by the ISI, he says.

The objective was to start an insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Mr Khan says he was not a part of the deal at the time it was made, but went ahead with it because the JKLF was told that ``General Zia ul-Haq`s ideology was similar to that of the JKLF.``


The JKLF was told the move had Zia ul-Haq`s blessings

``I remember thinking that Gen Zia had said he wanted Kashmir to be a part of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), which clearly meant an independent Kashmir.

``So I went ahead with the deal.``

Another reason for accepting the offer was that two previous attempts by the JKLF at starting an insurgency had failed for want of ``external support``, Mr Khan adds.

Finding Kashmir\'s Pain in London #18

Welll, the greviences were of course home-grown, but Pakistan was involved even at the outset. There have been interview `s with one of the original JKLF guys about how they were trained and cultivated since the mid-`80`s.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4099740.stm

Media Spin and the Hidden Poverty in America #69
dullabhai, every facet of the human experience is reflected in the Mahabharata. TAhmed is the blind king Dhritarastra who refuses to believe why the Kaurava`s are so vilified, instead he sits on his throne and (if you remember the TV version) goes ...

``Kya ho raha hai, yeh sab kya ho raha hai ...``

US–India Deal and Kashmir #179

No need to hurt yourself trying to get into complex yoga poses Ahmedzai-bhai, you are among friends here :-)

US–India Deal and Kashmir #177
``Historically, though the Indian State has been able to instigate trouble within and outside the country it has not been good at managing the outcomes``

who is? Pakistani`s, American`s ...?

US–India Deal and Kashmir #172

The ``Gujral doctrine`` in particular, explicitly did not apply to Pakistan. I actually think it was a good idea, as applied to Bangladesh it could have prevented its slide into islamic extremism.

US–India Deal and Kashmir #167

Kaal, the oft quoted assertion is that IK Gujral ordered a unilateral roll up of Indian Intelligence activites in Pakistan as a CBM.

The Bubble Bursts #133

rsridhar, I think you have material for a very nice article here.

Images and Symbols -- Deconstructing the Iraq War If :
- Pakistan is the fortress of non-proliferation
- the US-India deal will destroy NPT

then:
- why is Pakistan clamoring for the same for itself?

Pakistan clamours for same U.S. nuclear deal as India
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-21T185039Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-241570-1.xml

seems like Pakistani foreign policy cannot move beyond its one-line brief.