Ashok Vemuri’s Blog

Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Tomorrow Is The Big Day In US!

Posted by: Ashok on: November 3, 2008

So the end is near for what has been a really long Presidential campaign in US. Tomorrow is the Election Day and we will hopefully know by tomorrow night who the next President is going to be. As a foreign national living in this country for 9+ years, with so much at stake in this [...]

Tags: , , , , , ,

Manmohan Singh Wins Trust Vote…

Posted by: Ashok on: July 22, 2008

I don’t write about politics usually - especially the kind of ones played out in India, but couldn’t resist today! Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government survives no-confidence vote with a comfortable margin! The motion was sponsored by the Communist parties, in association with BJP and a ton of other regional parties. The reason they [...]

Tags: , ,

Mess of One’s Own Making

Posted by: Ashok on: July 19, 2007

United States is not the only country these days to have made a big mess and then desperately trying to find a face-saving way out of it. Here comes Pakistan!
I have been following the recent events in Pakistan - the Lal Masjid shootout in Islamabad and subsequent suicide attacks by religious fundamentalists on Pakistani army. [...]

Saddam - out and over!

Posted by: Ashok on: December 29, 2006

Just read the news about Saddam Hussein’s death by hanging. What immediately came to my mind was a feeling of pity and irony. This guy is no saint, but what a fall it is for someone who once lived a royal life! And the irony is because such a fate was brought upon him by [...]


Categories

Blog at WordPress.com.

Albeo Theme is created by Design Disease