Monday, March 9, 2009

Akbar Singhvi

MJ Akbar has a nice piece on India-Pak here. His article - A flawed idea has some incisive comments.
I began with the suggestion that every Indian Muslim should offer a special, public prayer of thanks to the Almighty Allah for His extraordinary benevolence - for the mercy He had shown by preventing us from ending up in Pakistan in 1947. The suggestion was received with startled amusement, instinctive applause and a palpable sense of sheer relief.
Classic.

Not to be out done by his fellow journo, Vir Sanghvi has finally woken up and called spade a spade. A refreshing change coming from a quintessential jholawala, who is so ever consumed in political correctness...

It's good to see him not make that oft repeated romantic pitch of Punjabiyat and Biryaniyat for a change...
Three Indians won Oscars: A.R. Rahman, Resul Pookutty and Gulzar.
Their victory set off a frenzy of rejoicing. We were proud of our countrymen.[..]
But here’s the thing: Not one of them is a Hindu

Lets just leave it at that.

1 comment:

Incognito said...

>>Three Indians won Oscars: A.R. Rahman, Resul Pookutty and Gulzar.
...But here’s the thing: Not one of them is a Hindu.

How do you know.
What is a Hindu.