Posted by gargi on 31 May 2005 | Tagged as: International
Dick Cheney is offendend by Amnesty’s description of Guantanamo Bay as the “American Gulag”. It would have been so much more humane to have been offended by the torture.
Stuffing his foot further down his mouth he said:
“I think the fact of the matter is, the United States has done more to advance the cause of [...]
Posted by gargi on 31 May 2005 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
A lovely quote from a debate between Peter Hitchens and Christopher Hitchens. The event is the Hays festival. The two are brothers and had not spoken before the event for 4 years.
This bit is on Faith:
PH: He has several faiths. He has the faith I think of Darwinism, which is just like Christianity, an unproveable [...]
Posted by gargi on 31 May 2005 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
Not at all bad. Better that the ToI in terms of Over all News. Better than the Mid Day(which has really gone downhill in the last couple of years) in terms of Mumbai specific news.
And these are the two that i see as the main competition for the paper. I see it taking [...]
Posted by gargi on 29 May 2005 | Tagged as: Diary
Van Gogh - Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886
One of my favourite paintings. At a certain level telling you that you are damned by your “habits” for eternity, and at the other telling you that smoking kills.
Was he prescient or prophetic? - or was this simply art?
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Posted by gargi on 29 May 2005 | Tagged as: Books
Jose Saramago is probably one of the greatest writers of our times, and the The Gospel According to Jesus Christ is one of the finest books that I have ever read.
It is the story of Jesus - who is not the son of God, but the son of Joeseph and who loves a Mary. [...]
Posted by gargi on 28 May 2005 | Tagged as: International, Print
Last week poor Newsweek got jhapoed by the Pentagon for publishing a report on the desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo Bay . The Pentagon put on its most angelic face and swore that nothing of that sort had happened.
Newsweek was blamed for the riots that ensued in Afghanistan leading to loss of life. I [...]
Posted by gargi on 27 May 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Today, Amnesty International has called for the shut down of Guantanamo Bay - labelling it the American Gulag.
Amnesty, in probably one of its most contreversial reports in recent times, says:
The US administration’s attempts to dilute the absolute ban on torture through new policies and quasi-management speak such as “environmental manipulation”, “stress positions” and [...]
Posted by gargi on 27 May 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Read this brilliant article in Wired:
1687: Isaac Newton
The universe has one absolute clock:
• Time and space are independant of the observer.
• Time’s arrow points forward; events move ahead from the now.
1905: Albert Einstein
every observer has his or her own (accurate) clock:
• The universe exists in a space-time manifold.
• Everyone’s “now” is different.
• Acceleration affects time.
2003: [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 May 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
This from Madhoo’s site:
May:
19th May: Amit
26th May: Shivam
June:
2nd June: Saket
9th June: Charu
16th June: Harini
Yo guys! We need volunteers, so sign up quickly before we are forced to draft!
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Posted by gargi on 25 May 2005 | Tagged as: India, Politics
For me ,the height of Romantic Scenes in Films was Sunil Dutt crooning Jalte Hai Jiske Liye to Nutan, on a phone. Those old fashioned black phones with the ring dials. Nutan, of course, just cries.
Kind, Considerate, Liberal - in the old fashioned sense of the word, not the American monstrosity that goes by the [...]
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