This is the first time I’m posting an email forward on my blog. Because it is really uproarious, I had to post it. Enjoy!
Concepts for the next Harry Potter book
It’s about time. At the rate she’s churning the books out, her youngest fans will be almost 20 by the time the seventh (and [...]
Like the Great Bong, I refrained from even letting the thought of the ghastly murder of Manjunathan into my mind let alone write about it. However, this Indian Express edit piece comes as a weeny bit of consolation if you can call it that. Its byline is promising:
Wanted: bright, young, honest Indians willing to die [...]
B. Raman addresses the issue bang on target.
analysts have rightly advised the Indian government to not to be intimidated by this blackmail. They have suggested India continue helping the Hamid Karzai government in its reconstruction programme, while strengthening physical security for Indian personnel deployed in Afghan territory. Where I disagree with them is about the [...]
Introduction
This is unlike my other book reviews, which typically could be accommodated in the space of a single post although there’s no such thing like an “acceptable or ideal” post length. I know this review will, if I put in a single post, need endless scrolling–something I despise personally–remember, I need to reread it [...]
Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Though no check to a new evil appears, the checks exist, and will appear. If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe… If the law is too mild private vengeance comes in.
[Emerson in Compensation.]
A succinct description of Laludom, or more accurately, its numbered days. Bihar has [...]
Are illustrated here.
17 is a horrible age to die.
Link via Boingboing.
Lalu Prasad Yadav accepted his party’s defeat in the Assembly elections in Bihar and greeted Nitish Kumar for the victory. [The Times Of India - India]
There he goes. For now at least. Nitish Kumar who is very likely to become the Chief Minister has a golden opportunity to set in motion policies that can turn [...]
Lalu’s desperation shows at last, when he says Caste, not development, gets votes.
‘‘Ticket bahut soch samajh ke baanta, (have been very careful with tickets),’’ he says, giving examples of how RJD fielded upper castes in certain seats to make the best of caste equations, and instructed the Congress to do the same.
What about the development [...]
Gaurav Sabnis makes an excellently reasoned post that takes apart the Slam-Call-Centers trend that seems to be on the rise everyday. My support to it is about 90%. The 10% disagreement stems from this assertion, with which I disagree.
In my opinion, this whole call-centre-bashing exercise is an unconscious expression of the deeprooted prejudices in our [...]
For all its hollering on sundry issues and proclamations of “biting (watch)dogs,” the Left is quickly materializing as the 5-year-long (if this government lasts its full term) roadblock threatening India’s progress towards superpowerdom. The Iran issue is its latest weapon to blackmail the Congress. Its stubborn anti-America blinkers, chiefly among other reasons is what [...]
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