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Blog Outage Announcement
For about two days, this blog was inaccessible due to a malicious attack that spiked my traffic and jammed my bandwidth usage. Life is normal now.
I have disabled all trackbacks until I resolve this.
How not to Hear
Dear Abhishek,
Thanks for investing your time to respond to my post on the recent judgement relating to M.F. Hussain.
You misread my entire post by asking me not to speak for you. Upon reading your post, it seems that I should speak for you because you haven’t correctly heard whatever I spoke. What I find more […]
Pragati: May 2008
The May 2008 issue of Pragati has hit the stands. Liberal nationalism is the theme of the month. Grab your copy now.
Pragati: April 2008
The April 2008 edition of Pragati is out. Read online or download for your monthly dose of policy, politics, and economics.
Quote of the Day
Comes from Taslima Nasrin who has fled from India.
The Government (of India) is no better than religious fundamentalists..
Jugalbandi Concert: A Resonance that didn’t Resonate
I went, I listened, and left depressed. I am talking about this much-hyped concert that happened on Saturday.
Indian music icons Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, M Balamurali Krishna and L Subramanian will come together to perform on a single platform on March eight in the city.
It was supposed to be the first-ever jugalbandi of its kind, […]
Arsenals for the People’s Revolution
Guns, tanks, swords, knives, and bombs are not the only weapons to carry out the People’s Revolution. The CPI-M shows what else is required.
CPI-M cadres who were denied jobs in local factories ransacked a party office, beat up leaders and later locked them up in a shop in the Sagarbhanga area today. The district party […]
On Government
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
It’s pretty easy, but I’ll still ask: who said this? No Googling.
Cricket and Molestation
We must hand it to Dilip D’Souza. It takes only a particular genius of perversion to come up with this kind of comparison. Ordinary mortals lack this talent (pasted the full post here).
Of two recent incidents — women molested in Juhu on New Year’s Day, Sydney Test mess — which one stimulated more press coverage? […]