There is also TLSv1.3 secure connections, FTP downloads, comprehensive JavaScript 1.6 engine, tabbed browsers (pioneered by IBrowse), a customizable GUI layout, many other customizable features and support for proprietary extensions from other browsers. It gives you possibilities to visit HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 sites on-line. IBrowse is a fast, stable, classic web browser. But the developers kept the IBrowse flame burning and now we finally get to see IBrowse 2.5 released for both AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4.x with the right MUI libs installed. IOSPIRIT which was their distributor back in the days stopped all Amiga love on 1st of April 2007. A new version of IBrowse is now finally out. The test match coming up in 2019 does.Finally after so many years of waiting. To an audience question on the impact the upcoming Gujarat elections will have, Derek replied in characteristic humour: “The Ranji trophies don’t count. Siddaramaiah is the face of Congress in Karnataka,” Derek contended. “You need to fight the BJP in their local idiom. “The Congress win in Punjab was primarily because of a strong regional leader, Amarinder Singh,” said Barkha. The city was a multi-layered, different economic world.”ĭerek observed that the BJP has to be fought with a thorough understanding of the regional electorate. When I went home my friend’s fathers would cycle to work. He dreams of an India where such co-existence will be the norm. Growing up in Calcutta in a melange of culture and identities informed Derek’s outlook. “That is because every five years politicians go back to the electorate, They are trying to reflect a larger understanding of the electoral pulse,” quipped Derek. To Barkha’s question of: “You write of a news anchor who is a gau rakshak in a suit, who is it?” Derek said: “You have to use your imagination.” and observed further: “Media channels launch themselves on a brand positioning, and they filter news through this.” Playing devil’s advocate, Barkha said: “What if politicians don’t have the pulse of the people?” “We do have the pulse of the people!” Derek asserted: “We won a 3/4 majority!”īarkha observed that absolutism in free speech is impossible for every political party. And Mamata Banerjee always stands in the queue at the airport.” “Are current politics representing a backlash against an old elite? People are willing to give new people a chance,” Barkha said.īorrowing a term from Mamata Banerjee, LIP (Less Important Person) versus VIP (Very Important Person), Derek said: “When young MPs get off an aeroplane, they have someone carrying their pouch! It has become a culture! I have never broken a line. “More people from civil society need to take an interest in politics,” Derek responded. They condoled me when my father (Neil O’Brien) passed away.”īarkha asked the audience if politicians were perceived as noble. There are basic courtesies people from across parties extend to each other. Derek said: “We are political rivals, not enemies. “Though they aren’t inauthentic, but they crumble over tea and toast later,” observed Barkha. To which Derek replied: “I haven’t disclosed any personal or public conversations I have had with Mamata Banerjee.” The fights we see in Parliament, said Barkha, are squabbles meant for TV. “What politicians don’t tell you is more interesting,” said Barkha in humour. After Kolkata, I have more friends in Bengaluru!” “I chose only two cities to launch my book,” said Derek, “Chennai and Bengaluru. The launch, held recently at Catholic Club, as part of the iBrowse book event, in which Derek was in conversation with Barkha Dutt, was filled with light-hearted banter despite serious political discussions. Inside Parliament: Views from the Front Row (HarperCollins) Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien reflects on the state of the nation, on the note ban, the Constitution, the hasty GST roll out (a move the Trinamool Congress has opposed), and speculates on the 2019 General elections, among other issues, while also reminiscing over his journey as an MP. In his latest book, a collection of political essays,
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