Almost As Good As Chocolate » Tumblr http://shripriya.com/blog Random Musings. Imaginary readers. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:23:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 "He said ‘Ours is not a democracy, it is psephocracy.’ This means that electoral votes…" http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shritumblr/~3/JFrs7XY0AK0/16618411701 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shritumblr/~3/JFrs7XY0AK0/16618411701#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:23:53 +0000 Shripriya http://shripriya.tumblr.com/post/16618411701 Continue reading →]]> He said ‘Ours is not a democracy, it is psephocracy.’ This means that electoral votes determine everything. So that is quite obvious in this case.

It just struck me that extremist Hindus put me on a ‘black list’ after I had written a piece called Marriage For Peace during the Kargil War.

And now right-wing extremist Muslims are unhappy with the fact that I have dared to read from Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.

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India is a country that is run nut jobs of every ilk because the pathetic politicians allow it. 

I had to leave India to be safe: Amitava Kumar - Rediff.com News

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Back in the Empire State (Taken with instagram)

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Park City after the storm (Taken with instagram)

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Park City (Taken with instagram)

]]> http://shripriya.com/blog/2012/01/19/park-city-taken-with-instagram/feed/ 0 Stunning photo: Girl With A View PAD 20090904 IMG_1006 (by… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shritumblr/~3/65ulUelrseY/15993753086 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shritumblr/~3/65ulUelrseY/15993753086#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:49:08 +0000 Shripriya http://shripriya.tumblr.com/post/15993753086 Continue reading →]]>

Stunning photo: Girl With A View

PAD 20090904 IMG_1006 (by efroten)

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Sometimes, changing the perspective changes your perspective…

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]]> http://shripriya.com/blog/2012/01/13/sometimes-changing-the-perspective-changes-your/feed/ 0 "NOT A TEAPOT Jokes aside, the Prime Minister is an office of the Constitution, not a teapot to be…" http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shritumblr/~3/t8vtxWJ8gBc/15708820796 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shritumblr/~3/t8vtxWJ8gBc/15708820796#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:21:00 +0000 Shripriya http://shripriya.tumblr.com/post/15708820796 Continue reading →]]> Jokes aside, the Prime Minister is an office of the Constitution, not a teapot to be passed on as a family heirloom. Nor indeed is Chief Minister. Indeed, the whole idea of the Westminster Model was to get away from monarchical practices. Yet, here, we are staring at the possibility of a Queen Mother and a King in just a few months’ time. And it is only in the Congress — and that too at the level of the Prime Minister — that this inheritance thing works.”

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Dynastic rule by the Congress Party has made a laughing stock of the man who turned around the Indian economy in the early nineties. Have a spine, Prime Minister. 

Business Line : Columns / Ekalavya : Is the Prime Minister a teapot?

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Tree in Winter

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Majestic.
Photographer: Nick Brandt
Tip: Mitch

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A sign (Taken with instagram)

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