India won the Perth Test. Australia could not create a record of winning 17 Tests consecutively. Australia missed Matthew Hayden. India made two changes. Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh were dropped. Virender Sehwag and Irfan Pathan were in. Rahul Dravid played at no. 3 in the first innings and scored 93. In the second innings…
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Bharat Ratna
Since L. K. Advani wrote to Manmohan Singh asking Bharat Ratna to Atal Behari Vajpayee many have joined demanding Bharat Ratna to various people. Names of Jyoti Basu, Kanshiram, Mohammed Rafi, Jyotiba Phule, S. B. Chavan, Biju Patnaik and others have come up. Bharat Ratna and Padma awards were abolished by Janata Government in 1977…
Is India vs Australia series fixed?
Before the 2007-2008 India — Australia Test series began one Australian player predicted that India would lose 0-4. I felt the series was fixed. When Sachin Tendulkar was the captain the team went to Australia and Milind Rege, secretary of a cricket association at that time predicted that India would lose 0-3. He was right….
Happy New Year 2008
I wish all Happy New Year 2008. May 2008 bring peace to all. May it end conflicts. Let everyone have peace within himself or herself. Let there be peace among couples, families, communities and nations. Let there be peace in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Burma. Let issues between India and Pakistan be…
Positive discrimination is wrong
The constitution of India declares equality of all people. Some women want special treatment for women claiming women are unequal. They say there has to be positive discrimination in favour of women. When women lawyers talk like that it sets a dangerous trend. This needs to be nipped in the bud. The demand of women…
CBFC and film ban
CBFC is the authority to certify films for public exhibition. Once CBFC certifies a film nobody else should have the authority to ban the film. That includes state governments, Animal Welfare Board etc. Somebody or the other gets offended due to something or the other. CBFC has guidelines. It certifies films according to them. It…
Rising rupee is good
Rising rupee is good for India. Vested interests are opposing the rise of the rupee. Exporters want a week rupee. Exporters have benefited over the years. The cost of dollar went up from 3.36 to 4.76 to 7.50 to 49.09 rupees. At the time importers suffered losses. No attention was paid to them. Now dollar…
Death penalty prevents murders
I received two comments for my article “UN General Assembly and death penalty”. The Writers questioned the source for my statement “Every death penalty for murder prevents three to eighteen murders.” The source is an Associated Press report dt. 11 June 2007 that can be accessed on www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19160965. The report points to a series of…
Thoughts on 10/11/2007
It is for the couples to decide when to have their first child. Couples generally prefer to have their first child within first year of marriage. Satara Zilla Parishad’s scheme asking couples to delay their first child for two to three years and offering Rs.5,000/- and Rs.7,500/- for staying childless for two and three years…
Pratibha Patil and death penalty
Pratibha Patil became the President of India on 25/7/2007. Since then three months have passed. There is no news of mercy petitions of murderers sentenced to death. K. R. Narayanan did not reject any mercy petition. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam rejected one mercy petition. In spite of Home Ministry’s decision to reject mercy petitions…