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By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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It was touching to read the way in which the BJP’s Prime Minister-in-waiting L.K.Advani rushed to the defence of one of the accused in the Malegaon blasts, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur the other day. His reasoning that he had kept quiet all this time as Sadhus and Sadhvis and army officers were being rounded up, but could not bear the thought of a young Sadhvi being tortured by the police (going by her application before the court), certainly show his sensitivity. In fact Advani is known to be quite an emotional person, despite his tough and no nonsense exterior. Remember how he wept like a child when he watched Aamir Khan’s “Taare Zamin Par”?

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“It has taken a long time coming-------- Change has come to America!” In those charged words of the President-elect of US of A, beckons a future, not just for that country, but to the nations around the world. A world less prejudiced, a world less racist, a world more just and a world of much hope.

By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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Now, now, don’t tell me Hindus can also indulge in terrorism! How bizarre! How can that be possible? This vote bank politics is being taken just too far. You can’t brand nationalists as terrorists. Don’t push Hindus into a corner like this. It will be at your own peril. There is no way that a Sadhvi can be a terrorist. Look at her innocence, look at how petite and helpless she looks. She a terrorist? I just can’t believe it.
The outrage can be seen all around the virtual world. The news websites have hundreds of readers pouring out these kind of statements, and many more outrageous ones, which have been deleted for its vulgar, obscene and provocative contents.

By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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It is hard times all over. The newspapers and TV is full of bad news. Of course the only good news amid all this gloom and misery is the thrashing India gave to Australia, winning by the largest margin ever in Mohali. But that is little consolation for the strife and conflict which is threatening to tear into the entire idea of India.

By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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It makes one dizzy, trying to follow what’s happening in the United States. One may ask why should one follow what’s happening there at all, when there is so much happening in our own country—killings, rapes, conversions--- oh yes, durga pooja (yes its happening right now outside my window)? Well, if one has to answer that question a bit cheekily--- because our Prime Minister has told the President of the United States of America, George Bush, how we all Indians “deeply love” him. Is that not enough reason to follow how our beloved Bush is doing?

By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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The spate of Bomb blasts across the country, with the capital being targeted once again, has understandably once again set forth a wave of criticisms as well as demands for a more stringent law to deal with terrorism. Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, after indicating that his Government may just go ahead and come out with such a law at his address at the Governor’s conference, however seems to have had second thoughts. Just a day later the Cabinet meeting on Sept.18, decided against it, and instead has decided to initiate the much-needed measures to strengthen intelligence machinery among other things.