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Concerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear ...
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 ...
With highly-probable portends of an early election visible on the horizon, I've created a new category called Elections 2009. Beginning with this post, I plan to ...
Preface In an interesting article on Narendra Modi, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan (link courtesy Nitin) concludes that contextual morality is the one magic explanation for all ills that ...
The BJP's election victory is expectedly the hot subject of discussion on the streets, restaurants, darshinis, paan shops, and bus stops of Bangalore. Yesterday, I ...
Many thanks to a reader who brought to my notice M.F. Hussain's interview with Tehelka. Readers of this blog know my views on Hussain. The ...
The award for Hate Speech of the Century goes to this piece. The self-styled swamis of secularism have transcended all boundaries of reason. The reason: ...
Thanks to reader Kaanganeya for pointing me to this excellent interview where S.N. Balagangadhara (Baalu) shares his thoughts on certain fundamentals, which he says need ...
Our cops seem to be eager to perfectly fit the mould that Bollywood/Indian cinema has set for them. The Hyderabad police have registered a case against ...
Communism through the backdoor. Praful Bidwai style. Cars are an extremely inefficient form of transportation. According to a US researcher, the average American spends so much ...
Most Indian regional languages use Tattva Shastra as an equivalent of Philosophy. The word Philosophy--meaning love(r) of knowledge or wisdom--is quite inadequate to define or ...
My questions to Amit Varma's fascism post stirred up quite a debate. Work kept me from responding to Amit's responses. While I cannot respond to ...
Just when I uploaded that post defining an Indian Liberal do I read this rather puzzling piece on India Uncut. Amit Varma pushes his political correctness to ...
Has been put into action overwhelmingly, by the media. After Gujarat 2002, this operation is the second illegitimate offsping of the copulation of Secular Politics ...
A reader responds to my post on Kalakshetra. It appears as a comment on that post but in the interest of fairness, I'm posting it ...
The Web has unchained abuse, writes Dilip D'Souza in the People's Paper (link via BarbarIndian). Ever the champion of civility and politeness in debate, the article methinks, is ...
EPW carries an interesting article-cum-report on the plight of Dalit Christians (Downloadable PDF). It appears to be well-researched replete with historical, contemporary, and statistical data. ...
Poor Abi. I can picture the circumstances that led to this post. The fringe benefits of working at IISc sometimes exceed the actual salary. I'd ...
The byline of this article is interesting: Surat's Hindu-Muslim couple thought TV could save them...alas. Star TV achieved blazing TRP points before abandoning the story entirely. ...
Read this compelling interview where Karan Thapar tightly sews Brinda Karat over Nandigram. What's irritating is Brinda Karat's continuous refrain of March 17, March 17, ...
Positive tidings welcome my return to blogging after some backbreaking hiatus. Youths on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court's decision that put a stay on Centre's ...
Watching the gruesome footage of a badly-beaten up person on a local TV channel upset me. And momentarily angry. I suppose my reaction was proof ...
This interesting post on Desicritics seeks to examine the controveries surrounding the rewriting of, or the politicizing of history textbooks by governments around the world. ...
This post is partly my response to an offline discussion I had with a blogger I admire, whose original post trigged this response. Jagadish ...
Dissecting Contextual Morality: Part 2
Posted by Sandeep on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM. 3 Comments.
I had concluded the previous post with a note on AKR's understanding of Hindu ethics and traditional expositions on Dharma. He notes that Each addition is ...
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