174 Articles by

Amit Kelkar

a Pune based IT professional with keen interest in politics

News Reports

Dear NYT, Chicken Manchurian is as much Pakistani as Gobhi Manchurian is Chinese

Chicken Manchurian was first invented in the 1700s by Indian-Chinese chef Nelson Wang, who was born in Calcutta.

Amit Kelkar - 27 March, 2023

Cricket

Remembering the miracle of Kolkata on its 22nd anniversary: The day Laxman and Dravid batted all day and created history

Laxman and Dravid batted the whole day as a bowling attack comprising 2 of the greatest bowlers ever, Warne and McGrath, and two other exceptional bowlers, Gillespie and Kasprowicz, failed to get a single wicket.

Amit Kelkar - 14 March, 2023

Opinions

Why hatemongers and genocide enablers like ‘comedian’ Daniel Fernandes must be exposed

Daniel Fernandes displayed shocking bigotry as he claimed of declining help to Modi supporters during COVID.

Amit Kelkar - 3 March, 2023

Opinions

As Kashmiri Pandits keep getting killed by Islamic terrorists, the media, year after year, peddles the ‘Muslim neighbourhood in grief’ narrative

The media has standardised 'Muslim neighbourhood in grief' every time a Kashmiri Pandit falls victim to Islamic terrorism.

Amit Kelkar - 27 February, 2023

Cricket

Not just KL Rahul, entire Indian top order’s Test spot should be questioned, nobody has a God-given right to be a permanent member

Aakash Chopra even called Venkatesh Prasad an agenda peddler and accused him of pushing some personal agenda for questioning spot of KL Rahul.

Amit Kelkar - 24 February, 2023

Opinions

BBC, which employed the most famous pedophile in the world Jimmy Savile, comes out in support of child marriages in Assam

BBC also goes on to say that cracking down on such child marriages will force these marriages underground, so what are we supposed to do BBC, allow child marriages overground? Allow 60 years old men to marry 8 years old girls?

Amit Kelkar - 13 February, 2023

News Reports

Was The Wire’s Arfa, Hussain Haidry part of the India Conference at Harvard 2023? No. But there were other problematic speakers: Details

The Wire's Arfa Khanum Sherwani was not a part of the India Conference at Harvard 2023. But there were equally contentious other speakers.

Amit Kelkar - 13 February, 2023

Opinions

2014 was Ambani (Sr) and Adani, 2019 was Ambani (Jr), opposition’s campaign in 2024 is going to be focused on Adani, will this strategy...

This strategy of repeating everywhere that Modi works for Adani and Ambani has failed twice already, in 2014 and in 2019, will it be the third time lucky for the Indian opposition, we wait and see.

Amit Kelkar - 12 February, 2023

Media

‘For hire’ whitewashers now come to The Wire’s rescue to water down Varadarajan’s lack of editorial standards in The Wire’s Meta fiasco

Professional whitewashers for Islamist crimes are now offering their services for lesser crimes.

Amit Kelkar - 7 February, 2023

Opinions

Don’t mock the dead, unless the dead person is someone like Pervez Musharraf, then all memes are fine

We remember the late Vinod Dua's words today because some people are getting uncomfortable over all the jokes and memes mocking the death of former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf.

Amit Kelkar - 5 February, 2023

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