Tibetans in India want rights but will that be right for India?

While many in India will sympathize with the Tibetans for their peaceful way of life, one should bring emotions in a situation which is completely political. It is indeed true that Tibetans are still considered “foreigners” in this country and do not enjoy the rights guaranteed to others. However, granting rights to exiled Tibetans will only contribute in increasing the problems for this country.

Why?

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http://www.newsyaps.com/tibetans-in-india-want-rights-but-will-that-be-right-for-india/2653/

Revisiting my first article

Just realized that it has been exactly a week and two years since I started my career as a journalist. I began as a sub-editor but loved writing on the daily developments in life.

Although my first article was a take on the politics of Nepal here on my blog, the one I wrote after I became a journalist was a letter addressed to the Almighty asking him a crucial question. My then boss (the Editor) was so happy that he immediately decided to publish it in the newspaper I worked for then. He also suggested me to post it on an independent portal which I did.

So here is the link to that article:

http://www.merinews.com/article/a-letter-to-the-almighty/15834008.shtml

Kindly read it and feel free to express your views.

Thanks.

Himalaya or Siberia, the Yeti still eludes

As a kid I was always fascinated by the stories of the Abominable Snowman or Yeti, as is known in the Himalayan part of the world. There was nothing more enthralling to me than the fables and tales of the mysterious man of the Himalayas who still remains a mystery to the world. If today’s kids are not interested in the stories of the Yeti, it is simply because their parents don’t want them to be kids anymore. But that is another story altogether not worthy enough to warrant a discussion here. Let us concentrate on Yeti.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/himalaya-or-siberia-the-yeti-still-eludes/2587/

India’s problem is its multi-party system

It may be easier for an Indian political analyst to predict who among Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States of America but leave alone an American political analyst, even an Indian cannot accurately predict the outcome of the Indian General Elections in 2014. There is a very simple reason behind this and it has always been before our eyes; we have only missed it everytime.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/indias-problem-is-its-multi-party-system/2534/

Ranbir Kapoor’s Barfi is worth a 100 crore

In our day and age cinema in Bollywood are of two kinds: one which makes a 100 crore and another which is worth a 100 crore. Both kinds have had witnessed two classic examples in recent months. The first kind (maker of a hundred crore) was ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ which had a brawny-hero-saving-the-world-story and a macho Salman Khan. The second kind (worth a hundred crore) is ‘Barfi’ which has a charming-deaf and dumb boy-experiencing love and life-story and a simple Ranbir Kapoor.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/ranbir-kapoors-barfi-is-worth-a-100-crore/2497/

Will FDI reform the country and the Common Man?

The problem is: How will the “quality of life for a billion people” improve if the price of a commodity as essential as the LPG rises beyond the reach of the Common Man? Before taking the climacteric decision on FDI the government had capped the number of cooking gas cylinders at six which means that only that many cylinders will come at the current price of Rs. 399 (in Delhi). The cost of every additional cylinder will be at around Rs. 770 per cylinder. Not only will it leave the household of the Common Man in disarray but also threatens to eliminate him completely.

http://www.newsyaps.com/will-fdi-reform-the-country-and-the-common-man/2468/

Libyan crisis: Can US liberate the world from hatred?

Other than Ambassador Stevens, there were three other Americans who were killed in the US Diplomatic Mission attack on September 11, 2012, when a group of armed men burned down the consulate purportedly protesting an offensive film on Prophet Mohammed. However, the United States is now linking the attacks to the 9/11 incident. Since those who attacked the mission were armed, a possible terrorist angle is being probed. Destroyers and a team of Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team (FAST) have been dispatched to the troubled region.

Whatever be the reason behind the violent protest, the deaths of US officials within their own embassy exposes loopholes in the security cover meant for diplomats. It also raises questions on YouTube’s policies where the film was blocked only on Wednesday.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/libyan-crisis-can-us-liberate-the-world-from-hatred/2440/

No need to “straighten out”, an honest leader will do

Written on Saturday

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray says that if he is given charge of the Indian army, he will “straighten out” the country in a month’s time. In a part-interview published in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Dopaharka Saamna’, the senior Thackeray rued that his own ‘army’, comprising of the party workers, was “unarmed”. In other words, Balasaheb wants an armed force with which he will whiplash all who are crooked and get them in the right shape.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/no-need-to-straighten-out-an-honest-leader-will-do/2401/



 

The Kurukshetra of ‘Sur Kshetra’: Is art above country?

Even before it was set to go on air, Colours’ new singing reality show ‘Sur Kshetra’ had turned into a Kurukshetra. Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) had threatened to disrupt the show on the issue of the participation of Pakistani singers. Although he and his party have now withdrawn their protest after a meeting with Boney Kapoor and others from the channel, the issue itself is not likely to die down since it has left the Indian music industry divided.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/the-kurukshetra-of-sur-kshetra-is-art-above-country/2388/

Sivakasi disaster: Close firecracker industry or provide safety?

There is hardly any child in India who doesn’t love crackers. The brilliant lights and the near-deafening sounds of firecrackers on display every Diwali, the festival of light, is something many eagerly await to enjoy. Not just the children, even the adults love the whistling sounds of the rockets, the multiple hues of the anar (flower pots), circling flames of the chakri, the phuljharis and the bombs. But what is joy for a section of the populace may translate as death for another. The 38 lives which were lost to the blaze of a firecracker factory in Sivakasi on Wednesday is exactly that translation.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/sivakasi-disaster-close-firecracker-industry-or-provide-safety/2383/

Satyendranath: The Nobel Bose that Bharat forgot

The world has a habit of overlooking Indian geniuses. Correction. Perhaps India has a habit of overlooking its real gems (those with the surname ‘Bose’ in particular). If India was re-awakened to the legacy of Satyendranath Bose after the announcement of the Higgs Boson by CERN then the entire Nobel committee must have been inspired by Indians so as to overlook the contribution of Bose in the world of particle physics.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/satyendranath-the-nobel-bose-that-bharat-forgot/2364/

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Why Mitt Romney could be a better President than Barack Obama

There were mixed reactions to the speech delivered by Mitt Romney at Tampa, Florida, but most of them were good as he stressed on the need to focus on the “family” rather than the “oceans”. Indeed that is what America must look at now given that other nations have stepped up their efforts in becoming a global economic powerhouse. Everyone was excited when Obama spoke and indeed they said “how well he speaks.” President Obama spoke of “change” and indeed he delivered but unfortunately, it was in the negative.

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http://www.newsyaps.com/why-mitt-romney-could-be-a-better-president-than-barack-obama/2335/

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