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Dharma 101: A Critique
As promised to Yossarin, I hereby add, clarify, and (hope to) correct some items in Yossarin’s elucidation of Dharma. I’ve adopted his question-answer format because it offers a nice readymade template.
What is Dharma ?Dharma is about righteousness of actions. It is about righteousness which is universal and eternal i.e. it is invariant of […]
Dear Mr. Ramachandra Guha…Cont’d
Via the Acorn, who in this excellent short-shrift to cricket-commentator-turned-pseudo Historian, Ramachandra Guha, adequately delivers the treatment the piece deserves. From the paragraph Nitin quotes,
We need to repair, one by one, the institutions that have safeguarded our unity amidst diversity…
I challenge Mr. Guha to name exactly one institution that has done all these.
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.
Recalling a Train Journey
About three years ago, Dilip D’Souza concluded that liberalization had done little to improve India’s economy. I had pointed out that his conclusion was fantastic because it was based on just one train journey and a few anecdotal evidences.
He now rarely writes about the economy but that shouldn’t deter me from ruminating on the […]
Did you say Sedition?
Barbar Indians’ latest post carries an interesting observation
The first involves the following statement by Narendra Modi:
“I want to tell the government in Delhi, lets sign a year-long pact, you don’t take any money from us and don’t give us any aid. And then we will show the Centre how we run the state. You all […]
In the Name of the Aam Aadmi
Or how the Congress Party Screwed the Aam Aadmi
Cut to 2004 when an euphoric Congress party declared its victory over the dark forces of communalism, rich-centric politics and related evils. It declaimed that its Aam Aadmi slogan had done in the India Shining slogan etcetera. Cut to present.
Consider the state of India’s economy, which the […]
Pragati: June 2008
The June 2008 issue of Pragati is out. Download your copy now.
This issue carries a modified version of my article on the perils of lending intellectual defense to terrorism.
For the original article, see below.
Defending Attacks on National Interest
In a public-life career stretched over more than three decades, D.V.Gundappa wrote tomes on every conceivable aspect of […]
Demand for Backwardness
Let me make this a little dramatic.
Historically, the Gurjaras were one of the most prominent dynasties (yes, I hate the word “tribe” or “clan” because it reminds me of all the obnoxious colonial connotations that accompany it) that sacrificed thousands of warriors to ward off Islamic invasions. That is also because Rajasthan was one state […]
CNN-IBN’s Script Gone Wrong
Barbar Indians has a blow-by-blow roundup of CNN-IBN’s fascinating coverage of the Karnataka elections. One of the links led me to watch what he terms as an “instructive” video.
The chief actors include a very worried Sagarika Ghose, Ramachandra Guha, Gauri Lankesh and Chandan Mitra (surprise!). I agree with Barbar Indian’s take on the whole […]
Karnataka Poll Results: Anlaysis on the Ground
Again, the figures first.
The BJP triumph in Karnataka was a commonsense conclusion. Only the most foolhardy could make a contrary argument. But we have them aplenty. Yogendra Yadav, the psephologist whose statistical impetuousness only equals his record number of failed projections stands tall in that list.
Watching TV for the better half of yesterday was exciting. […]