Sample this - A leading news anchor while discussing the Supreme Court's Mumbai Blasts judgments asked a common Muslim man - Do you think the law is sentencing only Muslims? If it had been the judgment for the Mumbai "riots", this question would have been a fair one. But for the Mumbai blasts, was anyone else supposed to be sentenced? Think of the plight of that innocent Muslim guy - no matter what he answers, he was bound to ignite hatred and divide. Another Sample - A leading newspaper often comes up with a one-liner - Why are minorities always targeted after every bomb blast? Because as Aamir Khan said in Sarfarosh - kuch chand musalmano ki wajah se poori kaum ko badnam hona padta hain. It is like we in US start shouting - why are we always selected for the special screenings at the airport? Simply because few of the brown skinned people committed a heinous act and since we happen to...

I was not born when, as literature says, the high caste rulers oppressed, rebuked, and castigated the low caste unfortunates. That it is still prevalent in some places in India, atleast proves that the literature was not completely incorrect. However, I am definitely born in an India where a wave of radical change is taking place. Change for the better? Maybe or maybe not. It depends on which side of the coin we are looking at. Today, the Yadavs, the Mayawatis are riding high. And with the latest Supreme Court judgment, the OBCs along with the SCs/STs will ride even higher. That it will cast doomsday on meritorious students, that it will affect the quality of students produced by the IITs and the IIMs, that it will be detrimental to the productivity of the software giants... is all a matter of speculation and subject to never ending debate, which the media is currently doing a good job at. However, one thing is for...

So Mr. Bucknor is a goner, what about Mr. Benson? I would say he played an equally important role and in fact committed a glaring shameless act of asking Ponting about his opinion for the catch. Thus, he should be packed to England without much ado. Bucknor has been the nemesis for India for quite a long time but the impact Benson has made in India's defeat is huge. I would thus ask the impotent men of BCCI to not just be happy on Bucknor's ouster as it is just a face saving act from ICC. They have to push for more and if they want to win back every Indian's trust they better show that they are "real" men. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that they are more concerned about the compensation they will have to give Cricket Australia for abandoning the tour. More so, Mr. Politician Pawar is more concerned about his impending coronation as the ICC President. And above all they have...

I have often wondered why westerners do not celebrate Sister's Day or Brother's day as they so fondly celebrate Mother's Day and Father's Day. Probably, they are so afraid that this might lead to so many brothers and sisters from outside their familiesJ. Trust me, we also fear the same as no one will want a pretty stranger girl saying "Bhaiyya" but that does not deter us from celebrating Raksha Bandhan, a festival signifying the bond that we as brothers and sisters share with each other. This is one unique festival we Indians celebrate and we should dedicate more pages on it than we have been so far. On this auspicious day of Rakhi, I thought of penning down my heartfelt gratitude and affection for my three dear elder sisters who have been a world to me. Often we attribute our entire success to our parents, rightly though, but we do fail to acknowledge the supporting role that sisters (or brothers) play in shaping up...