Ajith Nair

Networked World 1. Best prices for products 2. Access to markets 3. Cross cultural information 4. Greater tolerance 5. Global communities 6. Opportunities to develop 7. Million applications on Facebook 8. Lost friends on Orkut 9. Concerted efforts on environment 10. Point of view on everything Networked World 1. Terror on everyone’s mind 2. Spam in everyone’s Inbox 3. AIDS for all 4. Climate changes that kill 5. Helplessness and despondency 6. Point of view on everything 7. Financial Crisis 8. Rupee is cheap 9. “We love you Bush” (huh!!!) 10. Osama has more power than Obama

As I write this, Karnal Singh, JCP, Delhi Police has had his second round of press conference, detailing the complex web of SIMI and Indian Mujahideen, time and again to an inattentive, misbehaved, mike thrusting media. The core perpetrators of most recent blasts have been the same people. A good number of them have been accounted for, the rest are at large. Meanwhile opinion among the public and experts are rife about root causes of terrorism. Many have talked about the marginalization of the minority, the ineffective policing of states and the failure of our intelligence network. Some analyses have been commendable and state the truth, with ample support. Others have been emotional diatribes, scathing but hollow. On the solution side, it’s been a repeat of the most popular POTA equivalent which enables arrest without evidence and trial. As someone said, it might only lead to Idgahs in jails and nothing else. As with most other areas, India’s ability to analyze far surpasses its solut...

An unmarried woman stands firm in the path of an unmarried man finding his long cherished dream. That sounds sensational enough, come to think of it Singur can be described that way. Mamata, with her vitriolic vilification of the Tata Group is desperately trying to occupy the militant anti Capitalist space that the Left has left vacant, thanks to the Buddha effect. Land or not, she sure is trying to make this property her own and by the looks of it, is winning hands down. It took a lot of provocation for the well behaved Mr. Tata to come out and even make a statement that they ‘may move out of Bengal’. The battle is cultural, the militant, aggressive Bengali woman versus the stoic, cultured Parsi. At the risk of sounding controversial, Mamata’s fight against Nano is almost a feminist cry against a largely male bastion- the car, the CPI, the Tata Group (when was the last time that you saw a woman top exec in the Tata group) We have a ‘very married’ woman on the other side of the world,...

Babu Lingo Concerned Department - an illusion that you chase endlessly (hardly find any concern for your concerns here) Sahe b- Anyone from Lower Divisional Clerk to Chief Secretary. Depends entire on who uses it.Saheb is usually found behind closed doors (the ones that split down the middle and swing both ways, kinda explains their behaviour too)or a pile of files Chai Paani - The vital connect between expectation and outcome plan this to be a series, updated off and on. Suggestions welcome!