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Ashish Shukla is an Indian journalist and author who has his new book:"HOW UNITED STATES SHOT HUAMNITY: Muslims Ruined Europe Next" released worldwide.
He also runs a website: www.newsbred.com which is antidote to boardroom bulletins that passes off as news by the mass media.
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(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 1, 2018 Modi finds his nerves tested by US on Iran
The one fall-out of all this, including trade barriers ratcheted up by both US and India, is Modi government swinging back appreciably into the China-Russia zone. India has this strategic advantage where countries are looking to wow India rather than the other way around. However, India-US relations for the moment are several notches down than they have ever been since Trump came to power.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 28, 2018 Joke is on Siddaramaiah; he and his loyalists are now BJP's B team!!!
The joke is on Siddaramaiah.
The former Karnataka chief minister had dubbed Janata Dal (Secular) as the B team of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the run-up to the Karnataka elections last month.
It would appear that he and his supporting MLAs and ministers today snugly fit the inscription as BJP's B team themselves!!!
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Soz now has Sardar Patel on target; and Congress is silent
Controversial Congress leader Saifuddin Soz launched his book in the Capital on Monday. Two things were of interest to average Indians: (a) Would Congress be seen in public with the leader who echoes secessionists' voices; (b) Would Congress respect the popular sentiment and punish its key man in the Kashmir Valley. But the event only confirmed the suspicions.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 24, 2018 Congress and its Soz and Karra; and why India is worried
Congress may yet take action against Soz or slap the wrist of Azad. But discerners see no sign from them on standing next to the brave and beleaguered Indian army. Their human rights begin and end on Kathua; there is never a word of praise when our jawans gun down a terrorist; never a drop of tear for their martyrdom or wailing widows.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Digvijay is only a continuation; it began with Savarkar
Congress leader Digvijay Singh's attempt to create the bogey of Hindu terrorism and dragging RSS into it is nothing new. In his classic book, The Men Who Killed Gandhi, celebrated writer Manohar Malgonkar, mentions how Veer Savarkar who was to Hindu Mahasabha what Gandhi was to Congress--was wrongly implicated in the Gandhi murder trial. Malgonkar dropped more than a hint that it was Congress government
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 9, 2018 What Pranab wanted us to pay heed to on Hedgewar
When Pranab da visited the very place where RSS was founded and said "Today I came here to pay my respect and homage" to Hedgewar, he wanted his countrymen to brush up their information on the great man: That he refused to accept sweets on Queen Victoria's coronation day in his school; that he was expelled for exhorting students to say 'Vande Mataram' in high school; that he threw bomb at a police station while still only 18.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 8, 2018 Thank God Congress-JDS; for there is Indian Express
Karnataka is important to Indians in many respects: it's a template for opposition unity; alligators and hippos sunning together. The 6.41-crore people of the state have suffered a thousand cuts; being treated no better than cattle. First, made to lock horns; then kiss each other's back and finally, left to numbness inside a deep freezer. A 37-seat party chief was hoisted as Chief Minister in a 224-seat state.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Irony died a million deaths in Tharoor's column
Tharoor leaves little for imagination and a lot for mockery in his piece. Empty rhetoric, typical of Congress, the sound of an empty biscuit tin. Mr Tharoor, irony has died a million deaths in this juvenile piece of yours.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 2, 2018 Opposition hasn't paid heed to Rajnath's words
In the wake of Kairana elections, and a loss in Noorpur by a whisker, Home Minister Rajnath Singh made a statement that escaped the attention of most political observers: "One has to take two steps backwards for a giant leap," he said.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 29, 2018 Five essentials to nail lies on Veer Savarkar
Be witness to the "Hate-Veer-Savarkar" moment in blogs and social-media posts on his 135th birth anniversary on May 28. As the creator of "Hindutva" philosophy, the annual reviling of the man would be done in unison by TheLiars, Squint, Srolls and Duff-Posts; besides editorial pieces in "Journalism of Courage." In essence, these hacks and compromised academicians would take recourse to five issues to revile the man.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 26, 2018 Remembering Nehru & his "Himalayan blunders"
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (the title of Pandit is a little incongruous for a sworn secularist) passed away on this day (May 27), 54 years ago in 1964. His larger than life image though has only lately begun to be put in perspective. A lot of it has to do with social media for it loosened the grip of mainstream media and academics in controlling the narrative, hiding the ugly and sprucing up the good.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 26, 2018 Indian Media and the judiciary canard
Newspapers would speculate on the "allegations" whether the Chief Justice of India ought to be impeached or not but you would never see them beat one's own brains whether the four "dissenting" SC judges have themselves invited an impeachment motion on their press conference earlier this year (as opined by former SC judge RS Sodhi).
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 14, 2018 Spot the pattern in Gauri Lankesh, Kathua and Unnao
Brinda Karat of CPI (M) has suffered from amnesia in accusing BJP leaders of complicity-by-support in the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents in an edit piece in The Hindu on Friday.
The thing most common in amnesia of course is memory loss--hopefully temporary in Brinda's case though with the Left-Liberal-Media gang you could be sure it's more likely a front to their shameless lies and propaganda.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Guha & Mander work overtime to keep Muslims away from Hindus
Over the last fortnight or so, Indian Express has almost daily pushed this "minority space" agenda on its edit pages. This stems from the fear of "Deep State" that, God forbids, if Muslims--and Dalits--were able to recognize that BJP and Modi are their best friends, the last plank of their survival would sink and take them down too in the vast ocean of human junk and wastefulness.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 5, 2018 On Manish Tewari and his innocence on "what's news"
On the HRD's move on "fake news", now jettisoned, the strategy of Mainstream Media (MSM) has been two-pronged: One, it's an assault on freedom of press (yawn); two, government must define what's "news'.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 30, 2018 HT blanks Sibal story; Express gives its own slant
These are the newspapers who are awarded and feted on fake "Panama Papers"--a CIA operation which is distributed to select media outlets around the world who then acquire a halo, claiming to have worked themselves to ground in heroically unearthing this massive scam. I mean how fake could you really get!!!
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Grand Opposition Alliance? You must be joking
Indian Express ran a front-page story on Tuesday with the screaming headline: "Maya to Party: Back SP again in coming bypolls..." Times of India, the same day, ran the headline "Maya won't support SP in bypolls." One of them for sure is lying.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, March 26, 2018 Why Mainstream Media wants to keep you "uneducated"
There is a good reason to believe that mainstream English newspapers in India keep masses uneducated. Most of it stems from bias. A lot has also to do because journos themselves are uneducated. They can't speak or write on any subject coherently. At best they are quote-renters. At worse, remotely controlled by compromised bosses, politically aligned. The whiff of money and power also keeps them drugged.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Indian Cricket needs politicians and here's why!
In Indian cricket, we have a situation where those entrusted with administering the game have no experience of it and that, in turn, are reliant on those who can administer but are better served by a delayed solution.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 23, 2018 The art of sneering at Modi: Indian Express
Indian Express is breathless in rubbishing the recent speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Parliament that "democracy in India wasn't the work of Pt. Nehru... but that it was in ragon (veins) of Indians." In last one week, Ashutosh Varshney and D.N. Jha have hogged its edit pages to sneer at the Prime Minister and swoon at Pt. Nehru as the reason India has democracy.