It's our Retaliation They Want

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There are hardly any parallels to what happened in Ahmedabad- in terms of terror attacks, IEDs and suicide bombings, never has a hospital been targeted in the cruel and completely inhuman manner the Civil hospital in Shahibaug and the LG Hospital in Maninagar were. Hospitals are always the centre of action after any attack- it's perhaps the first time they have become the scene of the attack itself. ( I say perhaps, because there have been a few incidents of bombs near hospitals like the one near the Mallya hospital in Bangalore a day earlier, and others in Baghdad also near hospitals). If terror is a war, then what kind of war is this - that tries to kill the wounded, to maim those already suffering, and to destroy the healers? Agreed, we are all pawns and possible targets of these groups, but are there no exceptions?....

Don't bunk History class, if you want to pass Math

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Forget the numbers, never have the letters meant so much to Manmohan Singh, his party, and government. I mean letters of the alphabet, not letters of support- but I guess that too, as its really down to the MNF, and the NPF, not to mention the BPN, the NLP, and the SDF to save the government- especially if the AIMIM and the MLKSC decide to vote against it. Each of those letter groupings represent one or more of a commodity more precious than crude right now, a parliament seat, and surprisingly our PhD-PM seems to have been a little tardy in Alphabet-soup class. The exam is nearly here, and he and Mrs. Gandhi must be wishing they had studied a little harder, a little earlier. They could have asked anyone who has appeared for the Indian Cramming Studies Exercise, and they'd tell you, the answer is a Kunji-....