Archive for November, 2008
Atheist's prayer-JUGULAR VEIN-Jug Suraiya-Columnists-Opinion-The Times of India
Prayer is often seen as a form of theft, a guilty misappropriation of another's hope. But far from being an act of stealing, a zero sum game in which one must lose for another to gain, prayer, true prayer, binds us together in our common mortality. It acknowledges that, [...]
Shoddy journalism | ckunte.com
You do not need to be a journalist to understand the basic premise of ethics, which starts with protecting victims first; and that is done by avoiding key information from being aired publicly—such as but not limited to revealing the number of possible people still in, the hideouts of hostages and people [...]
Let's put da: It would be funny if it weren't scary – will keep updating
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(tags: satire mumbai attacks terror terrorism)
There was a TAJ! on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Once there was peace and glory
today it’s all burnt.
I clicked this pic in Aug. End 2008, when I was there for a color workshop.
I didn’t know, one [...]
The Taj Hotel released a press statement and promised all help to the authorities. The statement read:
The Taj is very much a symbol of India and we are actually seeing a battle on and we will be defiant. We are monitoring the development of the unfortunate situation unfolding in South Mumbai, in and around our [...]
First of all, I hope you and all your loved ones are safe, wherever you are.
The words are threatening to choke me, and so I have to put them down here. However, the emotions are too many, too intense & too confused.
First off, the coverage. For now I have linked to some here. Desipundit has [...]
The prime suspects behind the deadly Mumbai attacks | Features | The First Post
While Qureshi is without doubt a prime suspect, various aspects of the Mumbai attack point to al-Qaeda: the degree of co-ordination, the timing – Western intelligence has been expecting an atrocity of some sort while Barack Obama waits to take over in [...]
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