Reason for Shiv Sena's actions

BJP has lost its higher caste Hindu following in UP and Bihar. Shiv Sena has lost its Marathi Manoos campaign to MNS. They need the local people's support for survival in these 2 states. Bal Thackarey, with his attacks on North Indians, is trying to get his Marathi support base intact. BJP, by going against their oldest political partner, is trying to woo popular support in UP and Bihar. But don't think there will be a political seperation between BJP and SS as this is preplanned and the primary motive is something different.
BJP has always been against Article 370 which gurantees special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Their logic is J&K, being a part of India, should not get a special status. Now, with SS raising the "Mumbai for Marathi" slogan and BJP opposing it, we might soon see BJP saying the same logic that it is using for opposing SS in Mumbai, should be valid in J&K. So, either remove Article 370 altogether or accept SS's demand. Either way, BJP is to gain.

The Aussies are in a lively discussion if the attack against Indian's have been triggered by racist ideas or not. I assure you this is a really interesting topic for discussion and am sure all of India will be engaging in a similar discussion when some Aussie is killed in any terrorist attack in this world.

Those idiots dont even realize that we dont care if those attacks are racially motivated or not - we demand protection for our youngsters and if the Aussie goveernment cant provide it then atleast they should stop making foolish comments.

Another anniversary of intolerance

On this day, in 1992, we witnessed a shameful transgress of one of the founding principles of the Secular, socialist, democratic republic of India by Indians claiming to be more patriotic compared to others. A very common discussion now is the role of the then PM PV. Most of us believe his callousness caused a lot of damage. I don't know if that's true or not but his inaction definitely enlightened a lot of people about the true ideas of Hindutva followers and stunted its growth.

Imagining the Strategic impact of Dubai episode on India

The Dubai real estate crash might force Abu Dhabi to step in, but I do doubt Abu Dhabi to help without extracting its piece of flesh. Heard that Abu Dhabi is pro US while Dubai was pro Iran. If thats true, then US diplomatic pressure would force Abu Dhabi to help Dubai but in return, seek assurances that no pro Iran activities will take place from Dubai. Iran will try to counter by inviting China to join the Iran-Pak oil pipeline. Chinese energy requirements will be somewhat satiated by this, augmented as it is with pipelines from central Asian countries. Democrat controlled US will not go against China (look at Obama's statements and not to forget Hillary's hillarious comment on ignoring poor Chinese human rights record at the moment, also China has a lot of $ reserves and $-yuan value being kept fixed by China). India has already voted against a nuclear Iran, thereby distancing itself from the latter, so Iran would be perfectly justified in bringing in China.... finally India will end up loosing a lot.