Pratibha Patil is sure to win these presidential polls. Shekhawat will roar like a wounded lion for sm time, cases against both will amount and even be filed in court, perhaps, but ultimately, Patil, or rather, the UPA will take the cake.

goodness, even Pakistan has a CJI who can and hopefully, will prevent Musharraf from taking office.

Next, we will have two more competitors for the President post, one will shout he's a murderer, immediately the other will sneer and shriek that he has extortion as an added benefit to murder.

And both factions will fight to dish out more and more fake charges and boasts from the candidates, except that it will be for their own.In the land, where Pappu Yadav aims to become PM, (even Karunanidhi and Amma do, i hope Bal Thackeray doesn't) the campaign for President after the next 5 years, is going to be really spicy.

After all, the Internet is also involved...not to mention the TRP craze that has captured the booming media. And we shall watch, sigh, frown, and pack our bags and leave for five-figured dollar-salaried jos in the US of A.

Once there, we shall repeat the watch-sigh-frown exercise again in front of our kids, but still teach them the 'Jana-Gana -Mana' and say 'Mera Bharat Mahan'!

Mahan indeed!

The battle for U.P

A corrupt ruling party, so-called 'secularist' opportunists, a saffron brigade and goons from jail.

Such is the political scenario in the 'heart of India', Uttar Pradesh, where definitely 'jurm kam nahi hai', as against what Mr.Bachchan promises us.

It is for a very startling reason that we are unable to predict the outcome of the upcoming of these polls.

Every party has messed up equally, and the competition now lies in the less mistakes one has comitted.

Which is exactly why Mulayam Singh hasn't spoken against the SC's order staying reservations.

He needs the upper class votes, as does the BSP's Mayawati.

The grass-root reality is this-(no big surprise)- Either the Congress or the SP will get a narrow majority, and the whole support-coalition-withdraw support when polls approach cycle will continue.

The spice, however, is the sugar-coated ironies that all our 'leaders' will deliver in the form of speeches in rallies.

I'm very eager to hear them do just that.

a really cool cartoon i found on d net!

njoy!

Why has the congress failed to garner votes in Punjab and Haryana?

Simple. It has lost its individual footing everywhere, with coalition manoa getting stronger each day..

It is no longer a sacrifice of ideas for any party to form a coalition.

And the electorate, dissatisfied with these 'secularists' that the congress calls itself, has been slowly and consciously switching to deliver a more religion-centric verdict than ever.

the question is, what else do we do if we do not gain by playing secular?

Naturally, hoist the 'dharma' or 'Hindutva' flag..

What a perfect time to act, isn't it?

No wonder the Congress is losing it's foothold in U.P

The only politics it participates in in UP is the politics of opportunism.

Mulayam Singh definitely has set up a government that encourages all sorts of crimes. But what is the Congress going to change? Sonia Gandhi is ready to launch rahul Gandhi in UP.

The only difference he will make is a young face, but progress?

More than lip service needs to be paid to U.P politics. The educational institutions, steel plants, power plants, are the temples of the future India. These need to be set up from the grass root level in Up and Bihar.

They are way behind the entire country.

The states need a new generation,' a generation of the revolution in India.'

Rahul Gandhi seems to be a fixture who remains static.

He is not the solution, but by sheer irony, the aam aadmi is.

One of the new lower-middle-class stories

a really nice and well-made movie.

Sonia Gandhi's Mumbai rally emphasises the Congress's sole supporters, the Dalit extremists who, in the name of defending Dalits' rights, are prepared to damage public property, and create a nuisance of themselves..Nuisances capable of keeping the 'city that never sleeps' looking behind it's shoulder cautiously all along, wondering whether those hoodlums could be right behind them.

And of course, the Muslim community that is too scared to shift 2wards an all-muslim party, fearing they might turn out to be another D-gang, and of course completely against the Hindutva- oriented BJP-Sena alliance.

This alliance might give them a sure win in the civic polls, what with the bad marks the hindutva alliance has recieved 4m the city.

When these 'leaders' have failed desperately, what option do we common people with no vested interests in any of the alliances have?

just to stay put and watch as our tax money feeds these politicians whose waistline grows larger by the day?

no, we have to get out and do smthing ourselves. The time has come when we have to rise, not for any vested interests' sake, but for our conscience.

Wake up..

Finally, we get justice.

Delayed, yes but not denied. Yes, Jessica's family was ripped apart by the entire court proceddings, but this is a huge relief not only 4 them, but also 4 all of us.

Kudos To Sabrina Lall for believing in justice, and being a role model for millions of Indians still fighting their lonely battles in a million unknown towns..

Mr.Karan Thapar's recent interview of Ram Jethmalani was certainly his best battle till date. It even surpassed the one with Musharraf.
Mr. Thapar, slowly but skilfully exposed a man who was fed up with the way the world was treating him, like something from a different century, or worse, a once-genius who had lost his footing. Insecurity makes the best of people crumble, and Jethmalani is an apt example.
His antics grow day by day, no one is a stranger to them. He was made by the media, he wanted to die with it.
In his own words, 'I'd rather have bad media than no media' he makes no secret of the fact that he's not so reclusive as he shows himself to be.
What most successful people fear is that their reputation, their good name, shall be taken over by sm1 else after them. They don't realise that nothing lives forever. Everything has been created to vanish smday.
He was a hero once. Perhaps he had some conscience. Now, obsessed by the 'good life', as they call it, he has like evry1 else exposed to it, bowed low to temptations.
There are many such people, but we don't call them on national TV and wonder about their conscience in public. What makes Mr.Jethmalani's case special is that once, even if 4 a short period, he was a hero. Now, he's the villian evry1 of us pity. 'Poor guy..'

Ram Jethmalani, said to be India's best criminal lawyer, started his career at the Mumbai courts with Rs.10 in his pocket.

I've heard poverty makes people hardened, kills their conscience, and makes them aloof to all kinds of injustices.

But here, we see an extreme.He has jailed Sanjay Gandhi at Tihar 4 a month for excesses during the emergency, remanded Indira Gandhi to the same 4 10 days, prosecuted Maha CM A R Antulay, investigated the Bofors scandal, defended the constitutionality of implementing the Mandal Comission Report, among others...

His recent adventure is the controversial Jessica Lal case, in which he defends Manu Sharma, son of a powerful politician in Delhi, 4 killing former model Jessica Lal in front of about a hundred people, all of whom went hostile, 1 by 1.

I can imagine how he must gloat at home about his victories 4 d rich and notorious, 4 there is a larger number of cases in which he has acquited people whom all of us know by instinct are guilty of the allegations.

maybe he just came on the scene when the scene of india's politics had deteriorated so sharply and dramatically, that he had no way to go but the winning way.and of course there is a brilliant mind at work behind that 'innocent-old-man' look. The problem is, we are so indifferent to these court proceedings that we let all this happen and let reporters blare it out at us from the T.V, and blame the country's law and order system. Wouldn't any of us have tried to stick the case in court if Jessica was our own kin or friend or neighbour?we would have.

But here, it is obvious that we won't. Blame the system, the system sucks.

Blame the system, it deprived u of an education u deserved.

Blame the system, it gave ur promotion to sm1 else just belonged to a 'backward' caste.

And do nothing at all in ur whole life but blame the system.

The world's biggest hypocrites till date..

How can people 4m such high offices actually get away with their ideas of conquering the world under the name of 'DEMOCRACY FOR ALL', I wonder....