Hindustan Times
Those sections of the commentariat who urged the government to get into a confrontation with its allies over the nuclear deal had predicted that the popularity of the deal would lift the government’s own standing. India would be so thrilled, we were told, by the sight of a regime that fought bravely for the right to be allowed to buy uranium that the Prime Minister would be hailed as a hero and the government’s own image would be secured.
(1 votes, average: 2 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Advani, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, BJP, CNN-IBN, Congress, Manmohan Singh, Nuclear Deal, Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia, SP
There are so many misstatements, misconceptions and, well, mistakes embodied in the Thackeray family’s campaign to rename (or attack) those institutions that include Bombay (rather than Mumbai) in their names, that I really do not know where to begin.
(5 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Ahmedabad, Amdavaad, Bal Thackeray’s, Bombay, Bombay magazine, Bombay Scottish School, Bombay Stock Exchange, Maharashtra politics, Marathi, non-linguistic state, Sultan Ahmed Shah, Thackeray family’s
