Hindustan Times
It started out as a vote to justify a moral stand. It ended up as the bonfire of parliamentary political morality. How long will it be before Indians can live down the spectacle of MPs brandishing wads of cash on the floor of the Lok Sabha? Those pictures, beamed all over the globe, have shamed the world’s largest democracy.The only thing that can be said with
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 10:55 am
Filed under Views · Tagged Congress, democracy, Indians, Lok Sabha, morality, MPs, parliamentary, pictures, political, Prakash Karat’s
What is it about the pictures of American soldiers abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners of war (POWs) that has so shocked and horrified the world? It isn’t, as we might be tempted to assume, the evidence of torture. Judging by the pictures that have been published, there wasn’t really that much torture.Take the single most famous image to appear over the last
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(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 11:24 am
Filed under Views · Tagged America, American, Geneva Convention, Iraqis, pictures, prisoners, soldiers, Washington Post
