Peepli Live: A brilliant farce on India, its Politics, Media and People

Peepli Live (a pun on ‘People Live’) is not fiction, but a mirror to our disgusting society, politics, government, media and each one of us. It stamps a hard slap at the bloated sense of existence of each.

And like a good satire, it is filled with brilliant observations like the contrast between an obnoxious Hindi media and the uncaring, elite English media.

Do we live in a democracy?

The latest terror attack on the German Bakery in Pune shows how lightly we take the security threats. The police in Maharashtra (especially Mumbai) should have been on high alert given the intelligence inputs from the Centre about an impending terror strike.

But instead of that, the police were busy maintaining law and order due to the volatile situation created by Shiv Sena against SRK’s new film. The police were protecting cinema halls and rounding up Shiv Sena activists instead of addressing the terror threats.

Selling India’s natural resources

Our iron ore is finite, unlike the venality of our politicians and kleptocrats. And so, according to conservative estimates, it will last for another 60 years. Under the circumstances, should we start exporting it to China at a throwaway price (compared to what it will fetch when the commodity gets scarce) to the detriment of the future generations? Or should we be conserving the resource and exploiting only that which is needed for the development of the country? Are we not stealing from the future generations?

Watch Pakistani qawwali on Jassu Bhaiya

Jaswant Singh’s book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah proved too costly for him as his party expelled him even without giving a notice. But Jassu Bhaiya’s scholarly work on the founding father of Pakistan has made him very popular across the border.

A Pakistani television channel is beaming a parody qawwali which praises him for showing Jinnah in a positive light and accords a 21-gun salute to Singh.

Watch the qawwali here…

Crisis in BJP: Another leader attacks Rajnath

The unprecedented crisis that has hit the party with a difference is refusing to die down with yet another senior leader speaking out against party president Rajnath Singh.

While every leader has different reasons to blame Rajnath Singh, this is not the first time he is under fire. A letter written by a former party MP before the polls even accused him of harming the party by selling the election tickets during the Lok Sabha polls 2009.

Canary Trap brings you the letter written by BJP leader Virendra Singh to Rajnath Singh when the election process was underway.

BJP’s war within: Yashwant Sinha questions party leadership

The succession war within the Bhartiya Janata Party has intensified as senior leaders are questioning the party’s decision to reward those who should have taken the responsibility for the humiliating defeat in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls.

After Jaswant Singh, another former foreign minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha wrote a letter to the BJP president and blamed the top leadership for ignoring grassroots leaders like him.

RSS forms committee to select Advani’s successor

Tired of the escalating infighting in the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) over the leadership issue, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has decided to take the matter of deciding the next Leader of Opposition (LOP) into its own hands.

According to sources, the Sangh has formed a committee under the leadership of its senior leader Madan Das Devi to select L K Advani’s successor. Other RSS leaders who are in the committee include Shrikant Joshi, Madhubhai, Suresh Soni, and Indresh Kumar.