The Invisible Side Of Acid Attacks

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/19/2013 5:59:00 AM

'This guest post is written and contributed by Shalabh ChopraPreeti Rathi, victim of a heinous acid attack died on June 2 after battling for her life for a month. Her death has left a lot of questions unanswered for us, for our society. I feel no shame in admitting that till the point an incident doesn't take place, me and people like me don't say a word. After the incident has happened, we don't skip an opportunity to spit our prophesy on the case. So here I am writing on the case a(...)'

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Nitish Kumar’s Habit Of Ditching Continues

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/18/2013 10:23:00 AM

'Many saw this coming, including most in BJP. So do me also. In bizarre turn of events, it was expected of Nistish Kumar to do something utterly stupid which may and will have strong reparations for him and his party in the long run. Well may not that be that long since 2014 general elections is just round the corners. If you ask me, what are my specific feelings of this split; I would rather put it in very simple and clear terms. I am happy.But before I elaborate why I am exactly ha(...)'

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Right To Food? What About Right To ‘Clean Water’?

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/18/2013 4:14:00 AM

'This post is written and donated by Shalabh ChopraIn between all this hue and cry about the food security bill, something came in my mind and that needs an address. First of all, it’s really amusing to me that Congress party has suddenly started thinking of the poor hungry Indians. They couldn't think of it in 65 years of independence, and now they are even ready to roll over the parliamentary discussions on the bill and get an ordinance passed.It’s all clear for what reason the bil(...)'

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Since When Naveen Pattnaik Is Daydreaming?

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/13/2013 9:15:00 AM

'Every time the general election looms large, it brings about that rare seriousness among political parties. It also brings many comics to the fore as well. At least in last two editions, including the one that we are hoping to have in 2014, one major laughing stock that gets skirted is the possibility of a non-congress, non-bjp third front. Last time that was just a nameless third front which now have reincarnated itself with a name coined by Mamata Banarjee; the united front. As ex(...)'

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Open Letter To LK Advani

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/12/2013 10:56:00 AM

'Dear Advaniji,You disappointed me thrice in as many days in last week alone. Without wasting time in going round and round, let me crash on to the Mudda directly. First, being the patriarch of BJP you shouldn’t have resigned from all party posts, that too for a childish reason. If at all you were itching to write your resignation letter for some reason, you shouldn’t have taken that back quicker than you furnished them. You really made a mess of yourself, your party and of course yo(...)'

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Modi’s Elevation – Why Our Media Is Rattled?

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/10/2013 7:44:00 AM

'A lot of people were waiting eagerly. Many, most of them from Congress camp and our media, even lose their sleep over the weekend. As expected the Goa BJP meet left a lot of people in jittery and restlessness over the last three days. Knowing how badly they have governed and how precariously their prospect in 2014 general elections are placed, the entire Congress party was expected to be a lot nervous but why our media was equally nervous; or even more? More nervous than the Congres(...)'

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The Systematic Lie Peddling Called Bharat Nirman

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/7/2013 8:22:00 AM

'When I was in college doing engineering, I marked a systematic approach with a bunch of my classmates, the moment the exam dates were announced. Terming that as ‘approach’ would be an understatement since it should be best put as hysteria. Hysteria to cover up many things in a short time including reading through the semester books they never opened in last six months. Seldom have they achieved anything with such last minute panic. Hence, invariably always they end up choosing the e(...)'

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Political Parties Under RTI – A Great Time Pass

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/5/2013 6:40:00 AM

'In other news, I am told, Central Information Commission has dropped a bomb. The effect of the bomb spreads across all political parties. In a jovial outburst, the CIC has directed the major six political parties to come within the ambit of Right To Information act, 2005 and has given six weeks to fall in line with their directive. That is quite an ask for most of our political parties, looking at the manner they manage themselves. It was all but expected to have a voice of dissent (...)'

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Infosys Destined To See The Worse

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/4/2013 9:01:00 AM

'Though I myself an IT Coolie and doing this Cooliegiri for last decade and half, I generally never write about technology, policies of different IT companies or for that matter the so called visionary motor mouths that most of these IT companies house in their top brass. That said people do change their personal preferences when occasion or situation arises. Now that one of such show-baaz desi companies called Infosys is all but shaken upside-down, it more than looks tempting to poi(...)'

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For Congress It Is All About Saffron Terror

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 6/3/2013 5:15:00 AM

'This Post is written & donated by Pradeep T (@pdeept), Guest WriterDear Mr. Prime Minister,As you represent the whole government, it’s very valid to address this letter to you. You have the responsibility to answer the whole nation or at least the Majority of our national citizens about your government's successful inclusion of the so called 'SAFFRON TERRORISM' phrase. In all these years of thorough investigations, most of the times pre-laced with prejudice and malicious agendas(...)'

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Let’s Play Ostrich

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/31/2013 6:35:00 AM

'I have jokingly said this many times. Our national pass time is playing Ostrich. Hey, hang-on; did I just use the word ‘jokingly’? The line which when I used for the first time in one of my blogs, it was only an attempt at a sarcastic representation of our psyche. Little did I know then that I am actually scribing a rude reality quite unknowingly. Since the day I used the line for the first time, till today, I was more than just minutely observing our pan India behavior and to put i(...)'

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Naxalism - Does The Government Have 'GUTS' To Tackle It?

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/30/2013 3:43:00 AM

'This post is written and donated by Pradeep T (@pdeept), Guest WriterLet’s start with our so called leader’s reactions aftermath..!!Sonia madam and Rahul Baba said, "This is an attack on our democratic rights!". PM Manmohan Singh uttered "The biggest problem that our country facing today is Naxalism. Everyone should be inextricably united to retaliate this".. And, the reactions list goes on and on.This is not the first time that our PM is saying something like this on Naxalism; we h(...)'

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Well….That’s Not Fair

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/27/2013 6:07:00 AM

'This piece is written and donated by - Paritosh JadavEnough criticism has been done, over the Indian obsession for white skin. Many have shared their angst about those fairness products, selling in Indian markets like hot cakes. While this is not a secret that the obsession for fairness, is not only something that relates to a desired physical trait, but a phenomenon, that crosses over into the realm of self-deprecating and self-loathing racism. If you must have got a hang of the to(...)'

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Let’s Teach The Thugs A Lesson

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/24/2013 7:33:00 AM

'I rarely make a sells pitch. I never urge people to buy my lines for anything. No, not even for BJP or for that matter even Narendra Modi. I always put my viewpoint for all to read through and decide the best from it. Seldom have I asked people to forgo their own wisdom to tow my lines as the Mullahs around the world do with a false promise of 72 virgins up there. But now the time has arrived for a paradigm shift to my approach in calling a spade a spade. Now that the nation is almo(...)'

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The Dinner That Will Taste Bitter

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/22/2013 7:03:00 AM

'Congress is holding a grand dinner for its natural allies and unnatural allies like SP & BSP to celebrate UPA government’s ninth anniversary. And I am sure; the food would taste unusually bitter for a large constituent of this UPA coalition. If there were any possibility of the food tasting sweeter were handsomely ruined by yesterday’s opinion poll that CNN-IBN carried out in 20 major cities. To say the least, the numbers were alarmingly fatal for Congress, if they were still ca(...)'

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The Mega Farce Called IPL

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/20/2013 7:20:00 AM

'We Indians are always taken for a ride; and to some extent we deserve such betrayals in regular intervals so that we are kept reminded of the possible backstabbing one can expect for such cult worshiping. Be it our politicians who are hoodwinking us for last half a century or the ever so notorious circle of Bollywood which gets sprinkled with black money while we never shy away from showering our patronage for the moronic constituents of it or our national religion called Cricket wh(...)'

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Let’s Not Blame The Cops Always

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/15/2013 6:03:00 AM

'Our media is in a bad habit of picking stories and make a demon out of it where others don’t see any. The latest saga of the so called police atrocity where a cop was caught slapping a young girl inside a police station is one such thread which our media went gaga whole through yesterday. I have no qualms if our media wants to showcase this slap as an act of police brutality by either not going through the sequence of events or intentionally keeping the truth out of reach of the pub(...)'

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Parliament – Where Congress Plays Its Dirty Tricks

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/13/2013 7:35:00 AM

'I have said this close to zillion times. The theory that this UPA government follows to the hilt to cover their corruption acts is play gimmicks. Every time they find their necks getting tightened by yet another of their act of corruption, they either try to blame the 6 years rule of BJP as the catalyst for the mess or ask their ever so vigilant dirty tricks department to play another of their regular gimmicks to fool the nation. In most of the cases they in fact employ both the men(...)'

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The Serious Business Of Grammar Correction

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/8/2013 5:54:00 AM

'What is the responsibility as the law minister of this country? Yes, you are precise; you are supposed to correct the grammar of each and every investigation report that CBI or any of the investigative agencies dig out. Bringing about new laws, formulating frameworks to clear up the piling pending cases in our courts, some kind of judicial reform or any of such frivolous stuff is childish of an act for the law minister to perform. A law minister shouldn’t worry at all about the pain(...)'

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Karnataka Handed In A Platter

Author : Cynical      Blog : Being Cynical      Date : 5/6/2013 7:11:00 AM

'Our media is in a real bad habit of coming up with so called exit polls after each election voting is over. In a race to show, who understands the nuances of Indian democracy better, these media houses start airing their exit polls immediately after the polling booths are closed for the day. There in fact are people like Yogendra Yadav who have made a fortune in coming up with skewed numbers after each and every poll. No denying that the numbers these political Gurus come up with do(...)'

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