Stories about India from July, 2008
India: HIV Testing
To Each Its Own on the role of law in the issue of pre-marital HIV testing.
India: Studying in China
2point6billion on the trend of Indian students opting to study medicine in China.
India: Politician Blogging
After film stars, it is now politicians who take to blogging. The popular and controversial politician Laloo Prasad Yadav writes on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
India: Angry Hindus
Indian Muslims Blog on the concept of an “Angry Hindu” who complains when concessions are made for Muslims on religious grounds, not quite realizing that Hindus receive similar concessions as well.
India: From Cape Town to Bangalore
city-city-bang-bang relocates to India from South Africa and reflects on her experiences.
Debate Over India-US Nuclear Deal
For the past few months there has been a heated debate in India about its its nuclear deal with the USA. This is an issue for which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has lobbied hard and tried to get political consensus. In fact, some analysts and observers point out Mr. Singh...
India: Web 2.0 and other annoyances
Blue Screen of Duds on the lack of user engagement online in India.
India: Fooling the Media
A grand hoax saw a majority of the Indian newspaper media being fooled by the claim that a Nazi war criminal was caught in Goa. More at nanopolitan.
India: Pride and Gay
To Each Its Own on the gay pride parades in various Indian cities, and the strange absence of participants in Mumbai.
India: Sacking overweight flight attendants
Natifnatal [Fr] writes about the Indian high court's decision to sanction Air India's sacking of overweight flight attendants about a new report from ActionAid, a British NGO, which shows the ratio of girls to boys in India has reached an historic low.
