Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Politically Incorrect

  • Old man time,

    I am the old man by the river, if you think I am someone’s grandfather, or the village elder, I could be, but more important, I am the keeper of a memory of people and communities, “stories have changed my dear boy,” I told the man in the grey suit, “there are no more battles…

  • about Nationalism

    Modi talks about being a Hindu Nationalist, logic being he is a nationalist yet a practising Hindu. Let’s not discuss about who is a Hindu. Digvijaya says he should say Indian Nationalist. Digvijay is of course known to suffer from Footinthemouth disease though of milder degree than Ms.Jaya Bacchan. We talk of religion and the…

  • punching the PMRF

    The headlines today declared alterations between the PMO and RTI with the bone of contention being the PMRF. Here is what I could gather. The prime mister’s relief fund was set up by Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru in 1948 to assist people displaced from Pakistan. It is now used to render immediate relief to families of those…

  • the cat calls–ring the bell

    The campaign is about domestic violence. The church bell rings when the town is in danger. The rats think of belling the cat to become aware of danger. For me ringing the bell is more about becoming aware of something that needs attention. Over the past week I have been hearing hysteria over Modi. And…

  • Denying democracy

    Bhishma on a bed of arrows, screams The Telegraph. Shishya coup screams  TOI Pro Modi- Pro Advani warriors calls The Hindu The media having a ball, Arnab Goswami hitting hysteric heights, I don’t dare  turn on whatever channel BakBak Dutt is on. For the past year International Centre Goa has been having debates and interactive…

  • The Giant and the ant.

    At the end of the day, it for us the citizens to ensure that our systems work. Lets face it I is easy to blame Pakistan for our terrorist troubles, which in itself is pitiful, after we are Giant, and Pakistan is a piddly little state. Yet we succumb to the irritation. The entire sarbjit,…