Emotionally Speaking

Shashi Tharoor says ‘sorry’ in solidarity with all our holy cows!

Click here to read the part I of the report which has snapshots from his twitter account about the ‘cattle class holy cows’ controversy raked up by people who do not understand and appreciate humour!

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Shashi Tharoor and the Holy Cows controversy: Congress’s sense of humour is pathetic

Trouble is brewing over Shashi Tharoor’s tongue-in-cheek twitter remark to a question by journalist Kanchan Gupta [associate editor, the Pioneer] asked on September 14 2009, 11:57 PM on Twitter. The journalist had asked him if Tharoor will be travelling by cattle class in his next visit to Kerela! For the uninitiated [and this may include [...]

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Aishvarya is dead because of lack of medical facilities in JNU campus

The photo on the left is of Aishvarya Agrawal, M.Tech student with the School of Information Technology [SIT, JNU] who passed away yesterday at about 11 PM IST. The manifest, ostensible, medical reason is that Aishvarya died due to an asthma attack. But the real reason is that he died because of lack of a [...]

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Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot and Deepender Hooda in JNU Campus: A first-hand report

This is first-hand report of the public meeting in the Koyna hostel of JNU campus organized by the NSUI on the topic ‘Ideology, Student Politics and Challenges.’ I am a JNU Student and I covered the meeting with my camera and recorder sitting just two feet away from the three dignitaries [you can see my [...]

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Arundhati Roy in JNU

This is a multimedia report of the public meeting organised by the Democratic Students’ Union [DSU] in the JNU campus at Kamal Complex [KC] Open Air Theatre [OAT] 7 August 2009, 9:30 pm. The topic was ‘State Repression and Peoples’ Resistance: Experiences from Lalgarh’. It was also an occasion for the release of DSU’s fact [...]

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Two minutes with Rahul Gandhi: Experience of a meeting at 10, Janpath

Today I, with two senior friends, met Rahul Gandhi at the 10, Janpath. This is an experience of the whole meeting and includes even the finer details such as the sitting arrangement, security, lawn, the place, the look and feel etc. It also has a brief detail on the AICC headquarters, Sonia Gandhi’s office in [...]

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