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Quiz on Sedition
Posted on July 28, 2008 | 6 CommentsConcerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell,... -
Mahabharata Question
Posted on July 25, 2008 | 6 CommentsFor 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. Tweet -
Forum Post: The Best and the Worst
Posted on July 4, 2008 | 20 CommentsWith 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 record–very irregularly–a sort of a run-up of events, news, and other gossip–I’ll even create quizzes–leading up to the actual... -
Dissecting Contextual Morality: Part 2
Posted on June 18, 2008 | 3 CommentsI 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 really a subtraction from any universal law. There is not much left of an absolute or common (sadharana) dharma... -
Dissecting Contextual Morality : Part 1
Posted on June 16, 2008 | 10 CommentsPreface 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 have plagued India for more than 100 years. He says …Narendra Modi is our own creation, of liberals, conservatives,... -
What Does this Mean?
Posted on May 27, 2008 | 4 CommentsThe 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 was an uninvited party to one such discussion. A BJP worker was extolling his stellar campaigning work. In the middle... -
Asymmetry in Words and Practise
Posted on February 3, 2008 | 83 CommentsMany 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 interview is interesting because this is the first piece I have read where Hussain gives us a bit of insight... -
The Devil in the Advocate
Posted on December 31, 2007 | 17 CommentsThe 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: F-E-A-R. But this one is dangerous… This blogger chanced upon a hush-hush Devil’s Advocate with the Devil’s Advocate himself. It... -
Redefining Fundamentals
Posted on December 17, 2007 | 10 CommentsThanks 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 heavy redefining. I’ll add my random bits here. The current theoretical framework is firmly embedded within Western cultural history and... -
Theatre of the Absurd
Posted on August 11, 2007 | 18 CommentsOur 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 controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was recently attacked by workers of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) in Hyderabad, for... -
The Resident Idiot Doesn’t Want You to Drive Your Car
Posted on July 26, 2007 | 12 CommentsCommunism 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 time looking after, parking or repairing his car and stopping at signals, etc, that its average speed is roughly... -
That Which Shall Not be Named is Now Explained
Posted on July 6, 2007 | 8 CommentsMost 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 explain the full import of Tattva Shastra. One of the fundamental aphorisms that embodies the whole of Sanatana Dharma in...