Times of India is often pilloried for not adhering to the highest standards of journalistic integrity.
They are not alone.
I came across this stunner from Hindustan Times.
I had never heard of this guy before. His name is Mohan Deep and he is the father of Feng-Shui. How do we know? Because Sekhar Suman the Grey said so.
A terrorist. A shadowy figure full of hate, a twisted demented mind—–an agent of evil.
Accepted.
But then once in a while there comes a terrorist who is “hatke”, a terrorist who instead of shooting others shoots himself and his handlers in the foot.
I am referring to the genius otherwise known as Yasin Malik, the chief of Jammu and Kashmir Libertion Front.
I did my PhD in Computer Science from Stonybrook.
An excellent research university with a very strong science focus, Stonybrook had one of US’s most dissatisfied student bodies. The main reason was that there was zero campus life—-Stonybrook was as dead as Julius Caesar. So much so that a site dedicated to bitching about life at Stonybrook reportedly takes in more hits than the official page.
But this lack of life was not all that bad really.
Having nothing to do, people could concentrate on research—–mobile bar code readers that revolutionized retail, nuclear magnetic resonance……..serious, important stuff……but overall “in tune” with Stonybrook’s mortician-like image.
Lal Krishna Advani. The man who brought Rathayatra into Indian political lexicon after 2,000 years. The gleaming, bald pate crisscrossing the cow belt, bringing communal frenzy in his wake—-sprewing venom and baying for blood. If Vajpayee was the gentle somnolent face of BJP interspersing poetry with periods of pregnant silence, Advani was its virulent, uncompromising underbelly– a blunt weapon of saffron passion.
But now Advani desires to be the Prime Minister. And as Oprah would say—he needs a makeover. An image makeover. Which is what Advani endeavoured to do, rather successfully, by his recent statements in Pakistan. By calling the destruction of the Babri Masjid as the “worst day of his life” he stopped short of an explicit apology but it had enough of “mea culpa” to drive home the point. If that was not good karma enough, he went ahead and called Jinnah secular. Yes the same Jinnah the Pakistanis accuse Advani of having tried to assasinate.
Have you looked at Laloo Yadav’s report card ? It’s amazing.
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