Archives for “Weblogs”

The Game of Bogeys

I spent most of the last week working behind the scenes to foolproof my blog against its periodic bursts of becoming not reachable. Hence I ...


The White Tiger Redux

Meera beautifully weighs in with an open letter to Aravind Adiga. It proves one my pet-peeve theories that the biggest intellectual celebrity is also the ...


The media machine with the full backing of the secular establishment is furiously spitting in the hope of running away. The Outlook front page is ...


This post is more an addendum to Barbar Indian's brilliant analysis of the Slimes' shocking duplicity in covering the persistent violence at Kandhamal. For more ...


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 ...


The Direction of this Blog

After about seven years of almost nonstop blogging, I have reached a decisive turn. I won't stop this blog or anything. I'll continue being rude ...


From Sardar to Shivraj

This post is just one of the reasons why Nitin is a blogger par excellence. Let there be no mistake—Shivraj Patil ...


Chop Kashmir off India so that I can party in Bombay seems to be Amit Varma's mantra. Varma's hypothetical equation of India=British Empire or whatever ...


Revenge of the Turd

Turdesai employs Sagarika Ghose to wreak vengeance against the BJP for railing first, against his open unscrupulousness and then, boycotting his channel. It truly makes ...


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


Academic Terrorists

Goes by the name of Denise Spellberg. Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy ...


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 ...


More Mountain Weed Turd

Turdesai is not content with smoking Mountain Weed alone. He feeds it to his staff as well by making them write an "explanation" for why ...


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.


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 ...


Amardeep Singh, the kind professor who refused to engage me in debate writes about his strong support to forming SAALT [link thanks: Gaurav] The group has ...


Burn, my Beloved City

Update: A friend I was chatting with just told me that another bomb, placed inside a bucket opposite the Forum mall was defused in a ...


The King Stripped Naked

The UPA's trust vote victory has once again proved why it pays to be cynical. I firmly go by this diktat in watching Indian politics: ...


Media Games

Forget politics. Media watching promises to be a jolly activity. Rajdeep Sardesai's fiery journalism leads the charade. CNN-IBN seems to change colours almost every other ...


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...


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, ...