What do you do when buffaloes mysteriously eat away your green cover? Hunt down the real thick-skinned culprits that wallow in public funds! . . . → Read More: City Zen – Phantom trees and hungry buffaloes
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The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 received presidential assent on August 26, 2009. While this is clearly a step toward positive change, there remain glaring lacunae in the understanding of the Act and its provisions, as well as some ambiguity over who owns what. A friend at Maya Prajayatna has prepared a new leaflet for internal use (and therefore not shared here) that critiques the Act while seeking to examine and clarify its position on existing issues. I have illustrated the booklet with my cartoons. . . . → Read More: New cartoons on the Right To Education Kickbackistan is Thermal And A Quarter’s response to the corruption surrounding the Commonwealth Games 2010. . . . → Read More: Kickbackistan – kicking out corruption the TAAQ way The ‘One Small Love – Bangalore for Mangalore’ concert on February 14, a red-letter day made infamous by Hallmark cards and various killjoy extremist groups, will bring together musicians Konarak Reddy, Ravi Kulur, Alwyn Fernandes, Gerard Machado, Karan Joseph, Gaurav Vaz and Swarathma along with Thermal And A Quarter. . . . → Read More: One Small Love – drawing the line Seriously, don’t we have to redefine terrorism before we figure out who is a terrorist? . . . → Read More: 26/11 – What about our homegrown terrorists? Thermal And A Quarter has just released its video ‘One Small Love’ on YouTube. The song was first played live on NDTV’s ‘We The People’ show on the theme ‘Culture Wars’. The song was subsequently used in the credits of the show. The band released the single shortly after. The music video, the band’s first, has been created by Happy along with director Ashvin Naidu (Avakkai Films). . . . → Read More: Melt away the hate with One Small Love Not to be outdone by the rave publicity that the Sri Rama Sene is hogging, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the BJP, has imposed a ban on women wearing burqas at a college in rural Karnataka. Now, what are we to make of this? Western dresses are sacrilegious. Burqas offend Indian culture. Perhaps the sari, a garment that exposes ample midriff, ought to be made the official garment for all college-going women. . . . → Read More: Now, even burqas are against Indian culture?! On the subject of the attacks on women in Bangalore, Shri Advani is laconic. On his blog, he says just this much: “I have read in newspapers reports about some hoodlums attacking girls in . . . → Read More: Yes, Prime Ministerial candidate? With every incident of so-called Islamic terrorism, we point the finger randomly at LeT, or HuJi or SIMI or whatever. Our speculation has built the brands of these outfits, whoever they are. In much the same way, the last month or so has been a product launch for the Sri Rama Sene. And if the BJP assumes power again the next time round, whose back will it ride on? Note that it will have plenty of right-wing options to choose from. That we have a fascist government in Karnataka is no longer just conjecture. It’s the history that we are writing with our apathy. . . . → Read More: It's not over yet, Shri Yeddyurappa Take a look around – in Bangalore and Karnataka, honest and law-abiding citizens fear the police while goons and their politician bosses live in infuriating impunity. I wonder what our illustrious Police Commissioner, credited with cleaning up crime (despite a recent string of unsolved murders and sundry other atrocities on innocent citizens), has to say about the inaction of his police force. Were they following his orders? Or do they report to someone else in a higher place, perhaps un-uniformed? If people think twice about complaining to the police for fear of retribution or inaction, what does that say about the police force? If the Pink Chaddi Campaign was a beginning, this incident goes to show that it is not merely the chaddis or the chaddi-less that we have to fight. There’s a long embittering battle ahead. But our biggest challenge will be to keep up the tempo of this seemingly eternal protest. . . . → Read More: Moral cop-outs – who's to blame? |
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