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Thursday, October 18, 2012
"India's opposition: Big Joke Party"
I was thumbing through an old issue of The Economist (March 31, 2012) and came across an article, "India's opposition: Big Joke Party" (http://www.economist.com/node/21551526)
Shame on us men!
News of a spate of rapes on young girls during the last month has left one very uncomfortable. It gives the impression that young women have no right to personal safety.
I was reading an obituary on Alexander Solzhenitsyn written in 2008 in The Economist. Let me quote a very disturbig extract 'As for war, though the Nazis had unleashed atrocities in Russia, "I remember myself in my captain's shoulder-straps and the forward march of my battery through East Prussia, enshrouded in fire, and I say: So were we any better?'"
In one poem, "Prussian Nights", he wrote:
The little daughter's on the mattress,.....
Dead. How many have been on it.....
A platoon, a company perhaps?.....
A girl's been turned into a woman,.....
A woman turned into a corpse.-----------------------------------------------------------------
Shame on us men.
J'accuse...
May I suggest a name for the yet unnamed political party of Shri Arwind Kejriwal: "J'accuse" (as in Emile Zola)!
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