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...your heart out, Matt Drudge. India's defense minister George Fernandes resigned Thursday, joining a growing number of leading politicians and senior army officers forced to stand down in a corruption scandal revealed by a tiny New Delhi dot-com. Tehelka.com certainly made good on its promise of "news, views and all the juice" when it sent a few of its journalists out posing as arms dealers waving wads of cash at politicians and generals, and then filmed the resulting transactions with secret cameras. The result? A corruption dot-bombshell that has shaken India's political establishment to the core...
...money they could walk into the homes of leading politicians' houses and meet the top generals. And it's not as if they were offering sums that were all that large. You just have to have a bundle of banknotes and you can do anything you like in Delhi. The generals were giving confidential Indian army documents to these guys. It's the honest guys today who are the odd men out. They have to either keep their heads down and say nothing or else get out. That's the difference from 20 years ago - it really has become...
...Last Wednesday night on the final day of the census India's homeless were counted. In the narrow, crowded backstreets of old Delhi the enumerators spread out in pairs to wake up those asleep and take down the details of their lives. The man who ran an open-air "hostel"?some two dozen charpoys (woven twine and wooden beds) parked illegally on the pavement behind the city's great mosque?threatened the census clerks with a "good thrashing" if they didn't leave. "We find this all the time," one clerk sighed. "People think we are government spies. They still...
...time I leave Gujarat, the chaotic relief effort has been replaced by some semblance of order. After some prodding by New Delhi, the state administration has snapped out of its stupor, launching a welter of rehabilitation and reconstruction schemes and working with the NGOs. Many volunteer groups are pulling back, leaving the work to be done by organizations that have the best resources on the ground. This allows for easier coordination, ensuring that aid is spread evenly. Corporate India has responded magnificently to calls from the government, with many companies adopting entire villages. Thousands of wealthy Gujaratis abroad?think...
...Line of Control and suggested tripartite negotiations involving India, Pakistan and Kashmiri representatives. It also announced the withdrawal of some military units. With these careful, calibrated moves?encouraged and supported by the international community?the prospect of Kashmir settlement talks between Islamabad's military regime and the New Delhi government improved. India's decision to allow the Hurriyat leaders to fly to Pakistan to talk to the fanatical militants showed that New Delhi was looking for a credible political solution, although it has still not issued travel documents to the extremists in the group. Last week, when India celebrated...