Hindustan Times
The Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi seems to be determined that the India Pakistan relations do not improve. His latest move in this direction was when he raised the Kashmir issue in the United Nations in an attempt to internationalize it. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Filed under Capital Closeup, india · Tagged all-party delegation, Foreign Minister, Hindustan Times, India Pakistan relations, infiltration, Kashmir issue, news, Pakistan Foreign Minister, separatists, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Simla agreement, SM Krishna, terrorism, United Nations
Senior BJP leader LK Advani has always been known as a stickler for propriety. However, when he went to meet Amit Shah, former Gujarat Home Minister and an accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case in the Sabramati Jail last week, I for one was extremely surprised. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Filed under Activism, india · Tagged Advani, BJP leader, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat, Home Minister, LK Advani, Narendra Modi, Sabramati Jail, Shah, Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, Supreme Court
Union Sports Minister and former bureaucrat Manohar Singh Gill’s latest action in snubbing renowned wrestling coach Satpal during a photo opportunity with World wrestling champion Sushil Kumar on Tuesday is the perfect example of people wanting to shine in reflected glory. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged CEC, Chief Election Commissioner, commonwealth games, Congress, Congress Party, CWG, Guru Hanuman, MS Gill, P Gopichand, parliament, Prime Minister, punjab, Punjab Chief Minister, RTI, Saina Nehwal, Satpal, Sport Minister, Sushil Kumar, Tarn Taran, Union Sports Minister, World wrestling champion, wrestling coach
I have always maintained that AR Rehman is a greatly overrated composer and even though he has won an Oscar for the Slumdog Millionaire score, his compositions are more or less similar or have a very limited range. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Filed under New Delhi, india · Tagged Anandmath, Anil Biswas, AR Rehman, C Ramchandra, commonwealth games, Hansraj Behal, Hemant Kumar, Kalyanji Anandji and RD Burman, Khayyam, Lata Mangeshkar, Madan Mohan, Naushad, OP Nayyar, Ravi, Roshan, Sajjad, Salil Chaudhury, SD Burman, Shankar Jaikishen, SN Tripathi and even Lakshmikant Pyarelal, Suresh Kalmadi, Vande Matram
A needless controversy cropped up over the weekend when the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan praised late Sanjay Gandhi for advocating a small family in order to curb the growing population. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Filed under Capital Closeup · Tagged BJP, Congress, discipline, ecological balance, emergency, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Politics, population, Saffron Brigade, Sanjay Gandhi, sterilization, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
