October 30, 2006 – 10:42 pm
This post has adopted Ananda Coomaraswamy’s essay of the same title. I vaguely recall writing in this post, that Coomaraswamy typically wrote “for the professional.” The present essay however, is one of those rare introductory pieces he wrote several decades ago.
It provides broad outlines of the conception of Indian art, and contrasts the Western view [...]
October 27, 2006 – 9:31 pm
It’s now the wife’s turn. To say the same things. On an occasion it was uncalled for.
Versatile Bollywood actress and social activist Shabana Azmi on Friday depricated as unjust and untrue the tendency of equating Islam with terrorism as she received the prestigious International Gandhi Peace Prize…
October 27, 2006 – 4:28 pm
I made up that headline. But read the real report.
Two militants belonging to Pakistan-based Al-Badr outfit have been arrested in Mysore after a gunbattle with police on Friday saying that it foiled a “devastating” terror strike plan in the state following their capture.
Mysore’s popularity as a favourite tourist destination takes on a new dimension.
[tags]Pakistani Terrorism, [...]
October 25, 2006 – 5:48 pm
This BBC report barely manages to conceal its glee over a recent farce ceremony where “hundreds of Hindu Dalits” converted to Buddhism or Christianity.
Dissecting the BBC’s sleazy reportage is not the focus of this post.
October 23, 2006 – 1:07 pm
Dilip D’Souza’s methods strike me as strange. Do they stem from his ideological moorings? By his own admission, he’s not a Leftist, but a mere typist; so ideology is ruled out. Or is it a juvenile indulgence of swimming against the tide despite the dictates of commonsense?
Perhaps.
Case in point: Afzal.
October 12, 2006 – 12:10 pm
Congratulations on winning the Booker. I’ve never read any of your books so it’ll be unfair to comment on the literary worth of your Big One.
My only request: please don’t let this prize metamorphose you into another [tag]Verbal Terrorist.[/tag]
[tags]Booker Prize, Kiran Desai, Literature[/tags]
October 11, 2006 – 3:06 pm
Indian secularism has come of age. Not too long ago, assorted figures like Mullahs and now, increasingly, Christian groups, used to holler that their sentiments were hurt and blah. The current dispensation would instantly rush to their rescue and impose a quasi ban on whatever was causing the hurt sentiments. And we used to blog [...]
October 6, 2006 – 9:51 pm
And deliver my first ever puke. On this post. A one-line explanation is in order on why I’ve succumbed to Nilu: I’ve run out of patience with half-educated nitwits who neither know nor understand what they’re speaking about but shriek so loudly that you can’t ignore them. Excerpts, from that puke-worthy post:
i’ve been coming across [...]
October 5, 2006 – 10:15 pm
At least in the lexicon of a few like-minded folks, this blogger included. Unless you haven’t figured it out, I’m speaking about the Verbal Terrorist: see, last name is Terrorist.
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Shabana Azmi’s Erudition
It’s now the wife’s turn. To say the same things. On an occasion it was uncalled for.
Versatile Bollywood actress and social activist Shabana Azmi on Friday depricated as unjust and untrue the tendency of equating Islam with terrorism as she received the prestigious International Gandhi Peace Prize…