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Mumbai Special Court Pronounces Death For Kasab(1)
More than 17 months after one of the most horrific terror attacks in India which left a 166 dead and over 300 injured, the only gunman, Ajmal Kasab to be captured alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks gets death sentence. He was given death on four charges and life imprisonment on five counts. Kasab broke down during the sentencing.[...]
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Narendra Modi: Travails of travel abroad
While law of the land is trying to catch up with the acts of commission and omission in the Gujarat carnage, another set of laws, the global ones have been very clear about permitting the entry of a person like Narendra Modi into their country. Recently (April 8, 2010), a group of German MPs justified the denial of visa to Modi. They advocated a ban on his visiting Europe. This parliamentary delegation was on a two day visit to the city of Ahmedabad to study the state of minorities in Gujarat. [...]
The irrelevance of the BJP
My biggest disappointment with the BJP is that despite India voting it into power within a decade and a half of being a tiny two man party in Parliament, it stubbornly refused to meet any expectations. It picked up every cracked cause it found, from joining the rivers of India to building a Sanskrit supercomputer to wanting to replace the national anthem with Vande Mataram.[...]
Shashi Tharoor: New age politician who forgot old world values
The youngest doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, earning his PhD from the hallowed portals of Tufts University in the US at age 22, Shashi Tharoor is known to be an exceptional thinker. In his nearly three-decade-long stint at the United Nations, where he rose to be the under secretary general for communications and public information in 2001, he displayed consummate diplomatic skills as well.[...]