Public wrath needed for Naya (realised justice) in Rizwanur case

There are many occassions in life when it really feels nice to be proved wrong. Yesterday [Aug 14, 2008] happens to be one of those days since, during the day, Calcutta High Court, instead of taking the cover-up route, directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s premier body of sleuths, to file charge sheets against the [...]

I Have To Write – II

As far as writing is concerned I am going through some kind of depression  – I just can’t get down to writing – I mean writing  the rantings of a gagged journalist. I seem to be otherwise normal – spending a fairly active day – writing for money, translating, editing, playing with my children, quarreling [...]

Rizwanur Murder: Operation Cover-up Proceeding As Predicted

Operation cover-up in the Rizwanur murder case is proceeding as predicted. One will have to wait till December 16 to get the final verdict from the CBI: Rizwanur committed suicide because his own brother and Pappu betrayed him. An absolutely open and shut case. The victim killed himself because of his own family members.
Who says [...]

How Left Are We Leftists? How Left Is The Left Front?

I am a stupid person. I try to understand the complexities of reality by trying to break it down into simpler categories that I can understand. I get impatient with intellectuals who instead of simplifying the reality around us and making it understandable to intellectually challenged souls like us introduce even more complexities, more abstractions [...]

Rizwanur Murder: Those Who Justify Killing In The Name Of Religion Deserve Death Themselves

One commentator Shyam has made comments that do not really deserve a counter comment leave alone a full post. But I think letting go such thoughts without a comment is a criminal offence.
 Before I go into any of the issues let me ask Shyam two questions:

How is it Shyam that you do not find any [...]

Rizwanur, Mamata and Mao: What Is The Connection?

The Rizwanur murder provides enough ammunition to flay the Left Front government on the issue of “state sponsored terrorism” but dear readers you must have surely noticed that our Dear Dadaist (isn’t she a touch surrealistic?) Didi, Mamata Bannerjee has chosen to maintain a “studied” silence on the matter – at least compared to her normal rabble [...]

Rizwanur Murder: Is the CBI Keeping Some Escape Routes Free For Todi?

A question raised by one of the commentators on this site, Mr P. Gupta is still haunting me. If the SMSs sent out from Rizwanur’s cellphone in the hour before he died were sent by his murders or that he was forced to send them under gun point how do you account for the telephone [...]

Rizwanur Murder: What Is The Real Issue?

I find one aspect quite baffling among many other things that are baffling in the Rizwanur murder case. There are quite a few people including some supporters of the ruling Left Front government (if you ask me I vote LF always since with all others being more evil, I find I am Left with no choice) who see everything [...]

Rizwanur murder: Todi today, goons tomorrow?

It appears that Ashok Todi and his henchmen have begun to monitor this site. There have been three hits today from Ashok Todi and the Lux website. If the comments here were mere rantings and nothing else – far from the truth – then I guess this monitoring would not have been necessary. That’s a good [...]

Rizwanur Murder: Holes In Police Theories

The desire to pen a few lines about the Rizwanur murder case has been haunting me for the last few days but I had refrained so far as it had appeared that the CBI probe into the tragic death is taking a decisive turn and I wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. But [...]