Read This, Anna – And Other Things That Went Wrong
A month of bad news, from black money and Christopher Hitchens’ last words to a hockey tournament taken out of India.
Read this, Anna
Here’s another reason for Anna to go on a fast. A report by Global Financial Integrity said that roughly ₹5 to 6 lakh crore was illegally siphoned out of India during the last decade. The yearly figure would be ₹48,000 to ₹63,000 crore every year.
HITCH BACK
Here’s a list of most controversial quotes by literary critic Christopher Hitchens who had an untimely exit last month.
On Mother Teresa: She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.
On George W Bush: He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.
On Mahatma Gandhi: Millions of people would have mindlessly starved to death if his advice had followed.
On Religion: Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
On Terrorism: It is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
In Iraq War: Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
GOOD YEAR ENDS ON BAD NOTE
What soured the World Cup Win?
DOPE OUT: A rather good year for Indian sport ended on a bad note when top Indian athletes in 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2011 Commonwealth Games 2011 were caught in the doping web.
Kalmadi arrested: Everyone thought that the man would go scot-free after all those CWG scams. However, we were wronged. The man is now behind the bars for executing the biggest disgrace in Indian sport.
Paes-Bhupati split: All the hopes of a medal in London Olympics went for a toss when the duo who had reunited after nine-years decided to part again.
Champions League taken out of India: The fight for supremacy between Hockey Indian and Indian Hockey Federation forced FIH, the apex body of World Hockey to take Champions League out of India.
From the January 2012 issue of FHM India.
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