A recent interview in the Financial Times had South Africa’s president Thabo Mbeki reiterating his much maligned policy of quiet diplomacy on the ever thornier subject of his country’s troubled neighbour, Zimbabwe. With Robert Mugabe, who at 83 has now led Zimbabwe for 27 years, having convinced his party to select him as their candidate […]
Bhutan’s Refugee mess in changed context
For the last sixteen years of horrific lives in Bhutanese refugee camps, several attempts to draw the attention at regional, national and international level were made one after the other but to no avail. As a result, now the Bhutanese refugee problem is gradually getting complicated. With the long term stay inside the unimproved plastic […]
The Horrific lives of Bhutan’s refugee
About 80 thousands Nepali speaking people from southern belt of Bhutan, who fled to Nepal for safe living during early 1990s when the then Bhutanese despotic regime forcefully evicted them, even hadn’t anticipated that they would waste 17 years of horrific lives in eastern division of Nepal as refugees. But, finally it twisted into a […]
March Snows, April Mud Slinging, May Battles for Poll Position
As snow blanketed Dobbs Ferry in late March, it looked like nature was unfairly siding with the Democratic Committee. The very elements were mocking the nonpartisan idea (Republican) of an election in March. In February, the good Commissioner LaFayette (Democrat) had wisely canceled the referendum in March to move the election to March and spared […]
Heard by a Bird
"Some are killed by war, some by exercise." – Jacques Prevert Bumper sticker: THINK "HONK" IF YOU LOVE TELEPATHY Did you see the cloud resembling a stalk of barley over Pine Hill last Wednesday? A Letter Dear Sparrow: Community theater is a wonderful institution. It’s a shame […]
Supersymmetry
Instead of wasting billions of dollars building a hadron collider to find the elusive Higgins boson, physicists needed only to travel to the Village of Dobbs Ferry to find irrefutable evidence of supersymmetry. As predicted by political scientists, the controversy over the referendum to move the election from November to March has ended up […]