Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, who on Monday filed his nomination for the July 18 Presidential poll as the Opposition candidate, said that this will be his last electoral battle as he signs off by contesting for the country s top post.
particularly, i think, you d written it after india had done a big nuclear test and you were reflecting on what that meant for india and for the world. you know, these aren t necessarily the subjects of your average pop song. no, it s interesting, actually, because the nuclear, kind of, context was one part of everything, and the album, as you rightly pointed out, begins with vajpayee, the indian prime minister at the time, talking about how he d proudly tested three nuclear bombs in the pokhran range, in india. but it was interesting because he was the leader at that time of the bjp, which was the hindu fundamentalist party, which i found an interesting way to begin, juxtaposing against the book end of 0ppenheimer, who was in charge of the manhattan project, who was of german descent, an american scientist who was actually quoting the hindu scripture in condemnation of his own creation.