Opinion

by Suresh U. Kumar

The overwhelming emotion I felt as I learnt about the cowardly terrorist attack on Mumbai on Nov 26th was a deep sense of outrage. I recall feeling the same way on 9/11 and the days following it. My outrage is directed equally at the terrorist as it is to the authorities in India who have the responsibility of protecting the people.

Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swings between the conflicting positions of the present and former party presidents, Rajnath Singh and L.K. Advani, on the issue of "Hindu terrorism", the party cannot be unaware that it is dealing with perhaps the most explosive issue in its 28-year life.

When Chris Mathews, the host of the popular political show 'Hardball' on MSNBC, mentioned as a throwaway comment that Kashmir is one of president-elect Barack Obama's likely priorities, he unwittingly foreshadowed a potentially significant change in America's South Asia policy.

Barack Obama has a minimum of four years and a maximum of eight years to share and represent the dreams of millions of colored, oppressed and down-trodden people not only in America and Africa but all over the world. Only he is to decide that how much time the history of America that took 232 years before opening the doors of the White House for a non-white President will now take to repeat itself.

The near recession in the US and the global meltdown will, of course, have its impact on India's high-tech industry, as it is one of the greatest financial crises of our globalized times.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagging off the first train in Kashmir between Anantnag-Srinagar-Rajwansher at Srinagar on October 11

History was made in South Asia recently by two seemingly different but yet inter-connected events that could become symbols of hope in a region that has been blighted by terrorism and discord for well over a decade.

The near recession in the US and the global meltdown will, of course, have its impact on India's high-tech industry, as it is one of the greatest financial crises of our globalised times.

Senator John McCain spent much of the third & final presidential debate insisting that Senator Barack Obama's tax plan, unlike his, would hurt an Ohio man named "Joe the Plumber."

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My wife and I just celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary and let me tell you, I haven't been this happy since my dentist announced his retirement.

The tsunami like financial crisis engulfing the globe has flooded India as well, virtually drowning the stock and currency markets.