The Tata Institute–or the IISc–campus evokes very joyous memories, which can only be poetically described, a visual representation of scenes that you find in the Nature poet par excellence, Wordsworth. My house was barely a 10-minute-walk away from the serene campus and we precisely used to do that: walk in the campus till our legs [...]

George Monibot explains how. It makes for painful reading, an account of the horrors perpetrated by alien rule on a rich and glorious civilization.
In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published in 2001, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines which killed between 12 and 29 million Indians(1). These people were, he demonstrates, murdered [...]

Is the name of the medal that the Outlook Annual Hall of Shame has instituted. Guess who won it this time?
“Professor” Ponytail.

Just when I felt I needed some entertainment to relieve my worklife drudgery, here comes a solid piece of Nehru Bhajan:
Greatness is a very elusive quality. The great are great not because they are perfect, but because they manage to overcome the limitations set by their weaknesses most of the time. These thoughts come to [...]

Forget us, people will pull you down: Left to UPA
After trying to scuttle economic growth–and to an extent succeeding–the paranoid Left, I reckon, has come to terms with the bitter truth: the Congress is in no mood to pander to its fossilized whims. At the moment, the Left seems content in writing angry articles in [...]

Via Vinayak from Sulekha, here’s a hard hitting article aptly entitled Slut Feminism.
Unlike most of my female college classmates, I was never a fan of the show Sex and the City. My roommates would rent the videos and buy cheap champagne and watch them. I watched the show with them one night. After barely stomaching [...]

Reader Chetan has sent in a thoughtful comment as response to my post on Ananthamurthy. He has hoped it’ll garner a debate, so I’m posting it as is.
Hi Sandeep,
I tried to post my comment on your excellent post on the Bangalore issue. However it triggered your spam filter. I have included the comment in this [...]

It’s been said before but Gautam packs the punch with full force.
A loser – that’s who I am. Or that’s what politicians have made me feel like. On the one hand, we have 18,271 houses that have either illegally encroached spaces or are downright unauthorised. On the other, are people like us, who, armed [...]

Govinda assaults female reporter
Bollywood actor and Congress MP Govinda was booked on charges of assault and threatening a TV reporter at his Juhu office. The actor allegedly beat her up and forcibly took his interview tapes away.
Wonder what she asked him that provoked the MP to beat her up. This news report doesn’t reveal [...]

The General’s talent for duplicity is commendable. Only months earlier, he was seen cavorting with Israel and the Jews in America. But then brotherhood is thicker than diplomacy: Islam commands allegiance to the region of its birth. The General obeys.
Pakistan has no plans to recognise Israel and will continue its support to Palestinians till [...]