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Happy Deepavali

This blog wishes you all a Happy, Prosperous and Safe Deepavali. Celebrate this festival of lights without crackers. Enough have exploded in four years.


Pragati October 2008

This month's Pragati is out! Although I'm in the middle of reading it completely, I highly recommend that you download it pronto. It carries a ...


Blog Announcement

There seems to be a problem with my site's bandwidth. I'm working on resolving it so that it doesn't recur. Thanks for your patience. Regular ...


Has the real story of the Indian freedom struggle been told? If no, why do you think it is so? And how have so many ...


Quiz

Name the first person to successfully sue both the FBI and the CIA? No Googling, Wikipedia, etc...


Quiz

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


So this is both a question and a test of how well you know your Hinduism. :-) What according to Sanatana Dharma is the root cause ...


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 ...


What's worse than bomb-blast-a-day? Media and intellectual terror attacks. Have the fulminating columnists--Ram Puniyani, Sardesai, Shekar Gupta, et al, begun their orgasmic orchestration of--hey look! ...


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 ...


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 ...


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..


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...


This is not the kind of thing to appear on my blog but I’m real angry at this headline: Tour suspension: India risk $ 2.3 mn ...


Updated Loathsomeness

Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby announce the partial opening of the Hall of India’s Most Loathsome. Please head there and leave your comments/thoughts.


One morning, a cheerful gentleman arrived at my house and introduced himself as an employee of Bank of India. He persuaded me to open a ...


This post is courtesy an inspiration I got from this superb list of (deservedly) loathsome public figures in the US (thanks, Atanu). I don't have time ...


Old is Gold

Krish is back with a real gem after a long time. We'd kind of missed this one for a while. From comments on this post: krish ...


Praful Bidwai on Nandigram

Praful Bidwai pitches in with lots of acid against Buddhadeb and Left goons in this interesting center-page article in the Slimes. Whereas his criticism of ...


Nandigram, Muslims & Media

The Indian media sometimes acknowledges truth when it has no alternative. This Indian Express report of Muslims who were butchered in the Nandigram saga belongs ...