'Development'
Run India, Run for Your Life.
Posted on 30. Sep, 2010 by Ajay Goyal.
Tempers often run high in India. People throw tantrums over non issues – all the time. Where else on this earth young men burn buses and then immolate themselves because their favourite 74 year old film star dies a natural death. There is more emotion in real India than in most ridiculous Latin American soap [...]
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Blood, India
Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Ajay Goyal.
Maoist insurgents in India killed 75 paramilitary troops in a single ambush this week. Indian forces have been conducting a major co-ordinated operation against maoist insurgents that are said to control 200 of India’s 618 districts.
During my campaign in Chandigarh last year I wrote about the “Darfur and Dubai” paradox of India. It exists on [...]
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To School, then. By Law.
Posted on 11. Apr, 2010 by Ajay Goyal.
If a girl child does not get killed in India before birth, she will have to go to school. Or else. Indian government has made it law that children must go to school. It is free, it is compulsory and child’s parents will face punitive
implications if they do not send their child to school. So says the [...]
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Apathy Rules
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Ajay Goyal.
Chandigarh has been in news lately. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently visited Chandigarh to receive a Doctorate degree from Punjab University and speak at the prestigious PGI medical college and hospital. That day a man died at the gates of PGI because the police protecting the Prime Minister won’t let him enter the emergency trauma [...]
