Comments on: The web’s M.O. (from the Sonal Shah episode)

By: seemapathak

seemapathak — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:59:23 +0000

If you have so called right wing or FANATIC hindu parents

and they bring up a daughter with credentials like sonal shaha's

man!! I just want to be parents like them.
Seems to me they did every thing right.

I Iwill be very proud if I knew Ms shaha on a personal basis and try to find out what Right Things her parents did so that she is able to do so much constructive work for the world

By: seemapathak

seemapathak — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:59:23 +0000

By: Shah

Shah — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:57:42 +0000

Sonal should accept the truth bravely, only solution.

By: DISQUS | dave mcclure

DISQUS | dave mcclure — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:23:58 +0000

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By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:51:35 +0000

thank you Shri… great piece

as a non-desi i found it hard to have my typical brash take on this particular matter, so i'm glad to see you speaking out on her behalf. i did find it rather annoying that people were ripping on Sonal without any clue as to who she was and/or what her politics or philosophy were all about. she is one of the most wonderful, inclusive, level-headed people i have ever met and she is a terrific person to represent our country — and others — on the Obama administration's transition team. i've spent time with her discussing microfinance, philanthropy, women's rights, international relations, poverty, etc. and every time i come away impressed with her approach to helping make the world a better place for all of us to live together peacefully. i hope that other folks take the time to get to know her better before they make such quick judgment of her character.

thanks for speaking up & speaking out

By: Krishna

Krishna — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:29:01 +0000

It's a sad commentary on Indian-on-Indian violence. A sad, pathetic group of so-called “secularists' whose job it is to attack Hinduism. Who are so confused that anyone who doesn't overtly capitulate to regional minorities is considered anti-them.
These people should consider the Democrats Christian theologists. After all, they all say “One Nation under God”, don't they, and take their oaths on a bible. Yet this sad excuse for an academic (and a man) Vijay Prashad takes one awful incident in Gujarat and blows it up into the defining policy of the BJP.
It's strange he doesn't do the same for the L.A. riots in the US or the anti-WTO Seattle attacks. People like Mr. Prashad are the pathetic underbelly- feasting on ignorance and using the rhetoric of noble ideals to hide their agenda of hate and true intolerance