Primary Red at the Secular Right blog posts (a translation of) one of my favourite Subashitas. I’ve reproduced it here.
Armlets do not embellish a man,
Nor necklaces bright as the moon,
Nor a bath, nor ointment, nor flowers,
Nor well-adorned hair.
Only perfectly cultivated speech
Thoroughly adorns a man.
All adornments fade away always.
Adornment of speech is the real adornment.
And asks [...]
Big Brother Congress has literally closed all its orifices to the communist menace that so threatens the internal–to an extent, external too–security and stability of India. Headed by an extra-constitutional Prime Minister and comprising mostly criminals, the UPA government itself poses a threat to the country.
Read this to learn.
Brilliant.
Touching.
I’ve never been a great fan of academics–college degrees, fellowships, and recognition via the university route. Nor am I a fan of academicians. On a related note, I’m reminded of an episode: when Emerson, a strong advocate of college education, once told Thoreau that the curriculum at Cambridge comprised all branches of learning, the latter [...]
Again.
If you need more evidence for how Islamism has matured as a world-threatening force, go no farther than this–the hottest news item doing rounds today, namely, the Koran’s alleged desecration in Guantanamo prison.
In one stroke, we’re witnessing the most concrete evidence for how, despite all its internal clashes, the Muslim Ummah is really one [...]
And I’m talking about corruption in India. So does Kanchan Gupta over here. He quotes Sardar Patel, who called Indian Civil Service the “steel frame” that would hold India. And gives us some insights.
If you are willing to go to any extent to promote self over others, then you are sharp and street smart. In [...]
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Mricchakatika is a compound word, which can be translated as “(The) Toy Clay Cart.” The title is significant at many levels, which I’ve tried to disperse throughout this entry. Mricchakatika was written by King Sudraka whose date historians place between the 4th and 5th Century. Mricchakatika is a pretty complex plot–complexity [...]
The front page of (the online edition) of today’s Indian Express can more appropriately be called Sonia Special. They chose it to caption Rule Sonia! Is India xenophobic? The heading gives away quite a bit. India is xenophobic because it didn’t allow Sonia to adorn the hallowed office of Prime Minister. Look at the image [...]
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To continue from where I had left, I’ll devote this entry to examine the first of his plays: Yayati.
Yayati is based on a tale found in Mahabharata. Here’s an extremely condensed form of the story of Yayati as found in the original.
It is surprising how somebody whom you’ve had as your personal icon later transmogrifies in your eyes and then becomes the object of shallowness and intellectual vacuity. To me, Girish Karnad symbolizes this metamorphosis. I was an ardent admirer of this dramatist in my late teens; this admiration spilled over into my early twenties, too. [...]
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Big Brother Congress has literally closed all its orifices to the communist menace that so threatens the internal–to an extent, external too–security and stability of India. Headed by an extra-constitutional Prime Minister and comprising mostly criminals, the UPA government itself poses a threat to the country.