November 25, 2004 – 11:55 am
Dina has some interesting things to say about Shanti’s (original) post about Arundhati Roy as well as mine. First of all, she says I hate Roy to which I’ll give a predictable reply: I don’t hate her as a person (I don’t even know her), but I emphatically hate her views on certain issues. I’m [...]
November 24, 2004 – 1:02 pm
All right folks, those who have (if ever) visited my Autobiography page earlier and were disappointed, can now find some meaningful incoherence on the subject of Me. Those who actually want to comment on Me can do so in this entry.
November 22, 2004 – 6:42 pm
I stopped reading the inane pieces of shit that Arundhati Roy dishes out from time to time for obvious reasons. Yet, once in a while she comes out with stuff that is more outrageous than all the crap she has written/spoken previously. Thanks, Shanti
Roy has the curious habit of badmouthing the very country where [...]
November 16, 2004 – 10:12 pm
Did you know that Bertrand Russell was one of the (not-so-recent) famous victims of the Science versus Religion battle? I didn’t. Shame on me for I’m an ardent admirer of the man and I know so little of his life. In fact, I bought his Autobiography for a princely sum of $27 AUD, but haven’t [...]
November 15, 2004 – 7:44 pm
The Raving Atheist has a scathing, sarcastic indictment of the crazy law that discriminates against gay marriage, which has been passed in as many as 11 states (gasp!) in the US.
If you’re a gay couple and live in one of those jurisidictions — Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon or [...]
November 15, 2004 – 7:10 pm
It struck me as strange that most of the hottest selling Indian 4-stroke motorcycle brands have an “R” as their ending letter. Here’s a partial list:
Splendor
Pulsar
Caliber
Enticer
Eliminator (very expensive but it commands a monopoly in its segment)
Boxer
Before anyone jumps at me, I am aware that very few “non-R” bikes have been pretty successful:
Hero Honda CD 100
CBZ [...]
November 12, 2004 – 2:40 pm
With the Congress-led UPA government running the show, it is only to be expected that they will steadfastly support all kinds of terrorists, dead or alive. Especially so, when a Nobel-recipient terrorist is dead. With the world’s oldest terrorist, Yaseer Arafat now confirmed “officially dead,” several stalwarts from India have eagerly jumped the mourning bandwagon. [...]
November 12, 2004 – 11:31 am
Michael Crichton’s latest (?) book is pretty loaded with hard-to-understand scientific stuff–nanoparticles, agent programming, and molecular manufacturing is all my brain could digest. However, I never fail to be amazed at that man’s range of knowledge, and the effort he devotes in making them intelligible to the lay reader.
His theme in Prey is in the [...]
November 10, 2004 – 12:52 pm
Lalu’s political enemies have coined a new epithet for him: Modern Manuvadi. For the uninitiated, Manu was the first man or the first law-giver in ancient India. Much of Indian moral and ethical codes, strictures, and the “caste system” were devised by Manu.
Manuvadi is therefore, any person who advocates Manu’s codes. And it is [...]
November 9, 2004 – 4:21 pm
The recent murder of the Dutch filmmaker-columnist, Theo van Gogh (yes, related to the legendary painter, Vincent van Gogh) seems to have sparked off the usual wave of angry weblog entries. I don’t normally read a lot of blogs that have entries pertaining to the same incident unless a specific entry really engrosses me. As [...]
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Why do I Hate the Verbal Terrorist?
Dina has some interesting things to say about Shanti’s (original) post about Arundhati Roy as well as mine. First of all, she says I hate Roy to which I’ll give a predictable reply: I don’t hate her as a person (I don’t even know her), but I emphatically hate her views on certain issues. I’m [...]