Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Quiz

What is the Blood Telegram and what is it distinguished for?
No Googling, Wikipediaing, etc.

Public Service Announcement: Indian National Interest

The Indian National Interest (INI) blogs were down due to server outage. They’re up and running now. Rest reassured.

Kind Attention: Mr. Parrikar

Mr. Rajan Parrikar, this is a request to please contact me at sanwriterATgmailDOTCOM or by writing in my comments box.

Pragati August 2008 Edition is Out

Professional knowledge and professional competence have to be acquired by hard work and by constant study. In this fast-moving technologically developing world you can never acquire sufficient professional knowledge. You have to keep at it, and at it, and at it. Can those of our political masters who are responsible for the security and defence [...]

On the Lighter Side

If you ever need to take a break from earth-shattering issues, here’s the perfect site: http://sanghparivar.wordpress.com/
PS: Just returning the courtesy.

Attention to Detail

I rarely read a professional politician’s articles unless I know his/her record. Sitaram Yechury definitely is in my list of no-reads. As an ex-editor, I’m happy to say that my eye for detail has not diminished one bit.

Terror continues to stalk the nation. In five days, 55 bombs were planted (of which, mercifully, 25 did [...]

History Blogging at its Best

In a truly awesome post dissecting our Puppet Prime Minister’s daughter’s dubious attempt to categorize historians, JK covers a spacious spectrum. His dissection is a series of consecutive slaps to the lady, who is ever so politically correct despite having her flashes of intelligence. But the best thing about his post is the amount of [...]

Mahabharata Question

For those of you who are generally pessimistic about the political scene in India, I have some good news. The state of India in the period described in the Mahabharata was to put it mildly, catastrophic.
Explain how/why.

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? [...]

If We have an Iota of Self-Respect…

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