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KalaGhoda Art Festival - Snapshots.

By Satish • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

What you can expect : Kids playing with Colour, Bench & Umbrella Painting, Gallery and pavement shows,exhibitions, literary events, music concerts, dance performances, a food fiesta, and a buzzing street festival bring in audiences and participants from all over the city & world.



Aman ki Asha - Times of India Front Page

By Satish • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics

Times of India Front Page - Aman ki Asha, originally uploaded by Bombaylives.
Aman ki Asha a great start for 2010.
Indo-Pak peace initiative by Times of India and Jang Group.
Hope this Track II diplomacy bring people together gives us the much delayed peace dividend in 2010.
I think this is great start by the Old lady [...]



David Headley: Terrorist or CIA agent? May be both?

By A Khokar • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

U.S. citizen David Headley, aka Daood Gilani, who was arrested in connection with last year’s Mumbai terrorist attacks, may have been a double agent for the CIA at the time of the incident, according to U.S. journalists.
More than 160 people were killed in the financial hub of Mumbai in three days of attacks by a [...]



India needs to redefine democratic pluralism

By Isha Khan • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

India celebrates its 59th republic day on 26th January 2009. However, even after such a long time, India is unable to define a correct roadmap of nation building. Societal brakes are pulling down the rapid scientific advancement and communal tension is kept alive.
As a nation India harps on secularism but in practice this word remains [...]



Swat or Gaza?

By Mohsin Sehgal • Feb 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I have just returned home from office and I am fuming from toe to head. At every signal where I stopped I saw banners upon banners calling names to Israel and proclaiming solidarity with the people of Gaza. Hoardings and roadsides walls are littered with slogans like ‘ Israel ka jo yar hai, ghaddar hai [...]



‘By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt do War’

By A Khokar • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)

Former Mossad intelligence officer Victor John Ostrovsky in his two extraordinary non-fiction books; ‘By Way of Deception’ and ‘The Other Side of Deception’; reveals and goes far deeper into the Mossad’s frightening and often ruthless covert activities. He describes, how Mossad through the use of deception, duped the Americans into bombing Libya. The operation which [...]



Why Indians are Stressed and Unhealthy

By Guest Blogger • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Manmohan Singh had his arteries bypassed on Saturday, a procedure that increasing numbers of Indians are having. Last year, medical journal Lancet reported a study of 20,000 Indian patients and found that 60 per cent of the world’s heart disease patients are in India, which has 15 per cent of the world’s population.
This number is [...]



Price India is Paying for Tension

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

All the cities and major towns of India are seeing the multitudes of checkposts on entry and exit points. Bus stations, railway station and the airports are guarded heavily. Cineams, shopping malls and the parks have been turned into some sort of fortresses. Government offices and the officials are guarded by heavy contingent of police [...]



Sri Lanka Cricket Tour to Pakistan : India Fumes

By Sharafat • Jan 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Sri Lanka’s cricket team touring Pakistan in two legs, playing three one-dayers from January 18 and then returning in February for a two-Test series. This tour is a very welcome sign for the Pakistan Cricket Board and will boost the stature of cricket in the country and the cricketing buffs in the country are jubilant. [...]



Ghunda (Urdu Article)

By Mushtaq Ahmad • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)