Assorted Monologues

Archive for September 2008

Do We Need POTA?

Posted by: Amit Abhyankar on: September 20, 2008

    Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Delhi… what next? It could be any other city in the country… it could be any place in any city…Railway stations/Shopping Malls/Theatres/Markets. Can’t this be stopped? The mail sent by the militants brazens it out, “In the name of Allah, Indian Mujahideen strikes back once more. … Do whatever you can. Stop us [...]

Indo-US Deal: Comedy of Errors

Posted by: Amit Abhyankar on: September 13, 2008

    And just when I thought I have had enough of this political drollery, Indo-US deal continues to entertain.

First there was domestic political farce amongst the government, the Left & the BJP. Left had to oppose the deal because they have to oppose America. BJP’s stand looked most confusing and instead of taking credit for the [...]

The NSG Waiver & the Aftermath

Posted by: Amit Abhyankar on: September 11, 2008

Now this is the third article of mine in the series on Indo-US Nuclear deal. I had highlighted the significance of getting the deal through the NSG hurdle and India has done it! It was hard-earned diplomatic victory. Yes, I do have certain reservations about the language of the deal; but the bigger picture I [...]

Welcome!

Posted by: Amit Abhyankar on: September 10, 2008

Greetings Reader!
Welcome to Assorted Monologues… a place for me to indite about various topics, especially related to India.
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Happy Reading!

Chrome: Google’s New Champ?

Posted by: Amit Abhyankar on: September 6, 2008

    Google’s much awaited web-browser, Google Chrome is out… finally… after so many speculations & antinomies, here I am posting at my blog through Chrome. So what’s spectacular about this browser? Frankly nothing! But any product need not be spectacular to be good. But one can imagine, Chrome needed to be spectacular to lure in loyal [...]