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)!