The Embassy CABle suggests a serious crime was committed on Indian soil to which U.S. diplomats were privy. The Prime Minister cannot cite lame arguments to justify inaction. Since politics is a distraction, consider the following retelling of the WikiLeaks tale. An activist dies in a traffic accident. CCTV footage from a bank nearby suggests he might have been murdered but the case is never investigated properly. Three years later,...
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Advani targets PM, Left says C in Congress stands for Corruption
A WikiLeaks CABle that suggests the Congress was paying MPs to support the government during a vote of confidence has triggered a ferocious new assault on the government by the Opposition. "This government must quit," said LK Advani, BJP leader, adding that "The PM must take responsibility and resign...he has no moral authority to lead the government." The Indian players who star in the CABle have denied its claims. Pranab...
More »‘Cash for votes a way of political life in South India' by Sarah Hiddleston
Politicians admit breaking election law: ‘yes, that's the great thing about democracy' Politicians and their aides in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh admitted to violating election law to influence voters in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls through payments in the form of cash, goods, or services, according to a revealing CABle sent to the State Department by Frederick J. Kaplan, Acting Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate-General in Chennai. In...
More »How India missed the bus for top FAO post by Sarah Hiddleston
India missed a unique opportunity to place one of its leading lights in the field at the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as their candidacy was offered too late for the 2005 election, a leaked CABle dated July 28, 2004 ( 19191: confidential) from the U.S. Mission to the United Nations has revealed. The names of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the driving force behind India's Green Revolution,...
More »The mystery of missing Indian languages by Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Why don’t we see more Indian language content on the internet? For instance, there are over 200 odd million people who can read and write in Hindi. But Hindi doesn’t figure in any listing of the top ten languages used on the internet globally. Japanese, a cussedly difficult language to read or write, makes it to the top five. This, from a country with less than one-tenth the population of India. It...
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