As you know, I have always found Delhi a tiresome place. During my tenure as High Commissioner here the constant amateurish surveillance was the bane of daily life for all of us in the embassy. Avoiding the sleuths was no problem since they were always visible and we learnt to outwit them at their silly games! Delhi?s traffic also suggests that Indians are congenitally unruly - how they organise their fighting forces with this level of indiscipline remains a mystery. But having to put up with pathetic attempts by every second Indian politician and bureaucrat to recite Urdu couplets gets on one?s nerves. Now I understand why Jinnah wanted partition since his commitment to Islam was more secular than fashionable today. He had obviously had enough of cloying Hindus! These Indians stupidly imagine that speaking ungrammatical and invariably mispronounced Urdu will influence Pakistan?s Kashmir policy! Escaping the insufferable embrace of Delhi?s movers and shakers needs more skill than avoiding the RAW dimwits. The other evening, one well-known, young celluloid filly slipped me her mobile number, pouting meaningfully she found Pakistani men irresistible!
A significant number of NGO activists and groups operating in India are patronised by foreign powers, especially ones known to sponsor hostile actions against India. These entrepreneurial groups invariably protest to a so-called international community when Indian domestic events create opportunities to feign moral outrage. They also openly invite foreign intervention regularly when misdemeanours and violations of supposed human rights are alleged to occur in India. As it happens, this international community is synonymous, for all practical purposes, with the Nato military alliance. Nato happens to be the one foreign force potentially capable of engaging in military intervention against India as these groups desire. This is the interventionist calamity that has been visited on Iraq by two major Nato powers to enforce respect for human rights, by first dismantling Iraq brick by brick and murdering over a million Iraqis!...
In the previous part, we have seen that the Oil Spill disasters are an imminent danger in Sethusamudram, with a very high probability of occurrence because of its specific attributes. In continuation, we now turn to look at what is at stake in case an Oil Spill disaster takes place in Sethusamudram waters. We first survey the biodiversity in the region where Sethusamudram channel is proposed to be dredged, and then explore the specific impacts of oil spill upon the most vulnerable biological resources it holds....
George W. Bush?s presidency is marked by two events; one being the invasion of Iraq which by all counts is regarded as a disaster. The second event is the nuclear deal with India, which Washington Post hailed as the beginning of a ?New World Order.? A monumental event of this proportion deserves a careful analysis. ...
A party of victors: At the last count, the UNO, the largest non-governmental, voluntary organisation in the world had 192 nations as members. According to Article 23.1, Chapter V of the UN Charter, the Security Council shall consist of fifteen members. China, France, the Russian Federation, the UK and the USA are the five permanent members. The remaining ten non-permanent members are elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms with ?due regard being specially paid, in the first instance to the contribution of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution?, with the retiring members being not eligible for immediate re-election. ...
