How is Obama’s presidency going to affect US relations with India? Firstly, it was the Democrat administration of Clinton that catapulted relations with India into a strategic partnership. The Republican administration of Bush continued on that foundation with the breakthrough civil nuclear deal that was signed recently. And since India, as one of the major emerging economies, can no longer be ignored, Obama will in all likelihood build on the strategic partnership.

Some organizations working against AIDS and for homosexuals petitioned the HC which asked the Central government for a response. The Home Ministry headed by Shivraj Patil has argued against relaxing the law stating that homosexuality is a perversion, that homosexuals will corrupt the entire society and that it is unacceptable to Indian morals. How two consenting adults having sex will corrupt society, or how love happens to be a perversion just because the two individuals happen to be of the same sex is puzzling. And speaking of Indian morals, the law is a western import, not homosexuality.

The so-called secularism practiced by most political parties in India is synonymous with Muslim appeasement and therefore the dissatisfaction. However, instead of trying to implement respect and secularism, these groups seem to want totalitarian Hindu rule which goes against the ethos of independent India. It is especially the recent surge in violence by these groups to get their partisan ends met that is a disturbing trend.

The world over food prices have drastically increased affecting the common man. The developed world is weathering this problem with subsidies and economic stimulus plans, which are in effect providing money to the common people. The developing world is left at lurch with the poor taking to the streets.
So George Bush, the American clown, agreed [...]

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