August 31, 2005 – 6:53 pm
I’ve admired Walt Whitman as a poet par excellence; all the more because he conformed to my strong bias towards Emerson. Origins of Attempted Secession is a nice reflective piece of political literature; always contemporary, it contains something for societies residing in any turn of time.
The essay is Whitman’s contemplation of the American War [...]
August 30, 2005 – 12:55 pm
About reporting the truth, the Indian media wouldn’t be damned almost everyday. Nor would it shrink to a state where almost all of us give a 90 percent margin to its reportage. The Indian Express reports:
Protests began early this morning when in a show of solidarity, mediapersons, print and broadcast, assembled at the Chandigarh Press [...]
August 29, 2005 – 5:07 pm
Via Secular Right, I found this piece on the NYT.
Primary Red observes:
Mr. Mishra doesn’t really address his subject line. In fact, as he sees it, Indians don’t reconcile Hindu values and Biotech at all — instead, they abandon Hindu values to pursue technology. This is a ridiculous perspective by an author seemingly grasping for [...]
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August 18, 2005 – 7:59 pm
Nitin neatly traces the origins of Pakistani missile names in reverse chronology, from Babar to Ahmed Shah Abdali. Which is entirely logical and not at all surprising. As he notes
…the naming of this missile follows a familiar pattern of naming its missiles after Afghan chiefs who invaded India (and ironically what is today Pakistan) at [...]
August 18, 2005 – 3:08 pm
A Kannada proverb goes thus: you realize the pain only when your eye is pierced.
The Andhra Pradesh government has suffered the import of this proverb (too) late in the day.
Ending a year-long truce with Naxalites which allowed them to recoup and rearm, the YSR Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh today reimposed the ban on [...]
August 16, 2005 – 12:59 pm
Armed with a broom, Preity takes to the streets
God bless Preity Zinta. Have the recent murderous showers aroused some sense in the ivory-tower-imprisoned celebrities? Or is this another of their publicity gimmicks? Hate me for saying this, but Preity urgently needs an image makeover especially after the Salman Khan tapes incident where he didn’t call [...]
August 12, 2005 – 12:37 pm
In yesterday’s post I wrote that our worthies will not heed the supreme court’s words. This news piece proves it.
Despite stiff opposition by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Cabinet tonight approved more seats for Haj pilgrims, doling out more subsidy per seat.
The Cabinet agreed to airlift 18,000 more pilgrims for 2006, taking [...]
August 11, 2005 – 3:59 pm
Will our worthies heed it?
The Supreme Court has said the practice of notifying religious groups as “minority communities” should be discouraged as it promotes divisive tendencies that weaken the nation.
Never. On the contrary, they’ll do everything to perpetuate it. Remember what happened to the famous diktat of Dr.Ambedkar: have reservations for only 10 years and [...]
August 11, 2005 – 12:00 am
Whether it is out of ignorance–I fully doubt it–or something else, the VHP has put itself in a corner again.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding VHP’s reported assertions of Sikhs being part of Hindus, the outfit’s supremo Ashok Singhal has said from the time of 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh they “grew as [...]
August 10, 2005 – 8:22 pm
Jagadish Tytler is definitely in a fix. The papers, especially the Indian Express’ front page is inundated with the news. Their front page headline–the Web edition–has changed at least thrice in about a two-hour span. The same goes more or less, for the other papers, too.
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Armed with a broom, Preity takes to the streets
God bless Preity Zinta. Have the recent murderous showers aroused some sense in the ivory-tower-imprisoned celebrities? Or is this another of their publicity gimmicks? Hate me for saying this, but Preity urgently needs an image makeover especially after the Salman Khan tapes incident where he didn’t call [...]