Vincent Van Ross - Instablogs
Jan 5 2009
We seem to have woken up to a bloody and violent 2009. Israel was pounding the Hamas stronghold of Gaza strip in the middle east. After a sustained air attack and bombing of Gaza, Israel has subsequently launched a ground attack in spite of a...
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Jan 4 2009
For those Delhites who complained of a late winter, it is finally here with biting cold that sent shivers down the spine. Yet, nobody could see it as it was accompanied by dense fog reducing the visibility level to near zero! The dense fog hogged the...
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Jan 1 2009
Pakistan is not at all serious about fighting terror if its posturing after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks is any measure of its seriousness. The first reaction of the Pakistani Foreign Minister who happened to be in India at the time of the attack was...
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Jan 1 2009
Former prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, pulled out a landslide victory for her Awami League-led alliance winning 262 seats of the 300-member parliament in the first general election in seven years. Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of the...
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Dec 31 2008
Following decisions taken at a meeting between the National Conference (NC) president Omar Abdullah and the president of the Indian National Congress (INC) Sonia Gandhi, the National Conference and the Congress party are all set to form a coalition...
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Dec 30 2008
Whether we are good or bad (Shakespeare may not have approved this statement) we all have an inner urge to improve ourselves. All of us want to be good but if we are bad, it is because the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak! New Year provides...
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Dec 30 2008
Negative attitude is the greatest disability in the world. There is nothing more damaging than the thought that one cannot do something. Any task we approach with a negative attitude is already half lost. So many difficult feats are credited to...
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Dec 29 2008
The other day when I removed the rubber and unrolled The Times of India, the front page was not that of The Times of India…it was an advertisement! Not just a part of the page but the entire front page. The same has happened with the Hindustan Times...
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Dec 26 2008
I received a call from a scientist friend in Port Blair early November this year. As soon as I picked up my phone, he asked me a question he had asked me dozens of times during the past three years: “When do I see you here?” As I maintained my...
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Dec 19 2008
Right from the terror attack on Mumbai, one thing that has been intriguing is the way in which Pakistan has flip-flopped on various issues: First things first, their foreign minister, Qureshi, was in Chandigarh at the time of the attack. He said the...
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