Harini Calamur's Writings
Dick Cheney Today: “The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantánamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded…
From Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, a para summarizing Einstein’s three papers – that made the scientific world sit up and say, ” why didn’t i think of that” The first won its author a Nobel Prize and explained the…
This from Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, my current read – a quote an anonymous author: A Physicist is the atoms’ way of thinking about atoms. How very elegant!
Yesterday in the Economic Times – a headline which made me laugh: NRS 2005: ToI advances to No 9 reminded me of headlines when we were growing up – Indian Wrestler comes 35th – and the story would run — The Indian…
This from the latest issue of iNSIGHT – thanks to Shivam for the link- a very valid query: Early 2003, Ashok Singhal was a key presence at an official occasion organised by the Vishwa Hindu Mahasabha to declare the Nepalese king as…
The Rabid Right Resurfaces. This from today’s Indian Express: Activists of ABVP, student’s wing of BJP, today ransacked the high security Vigyan Bhawan, the venue of today’s meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE). The activists, who stormed the conference…
Mr.L.K.Advani finds him self in the eye of a storm. For two reasons: a) he called the demolition of the Babri Masjid “the saddest day of my life” b) He said some nice sounding things about Mohd.Ali Jinnah – the man who…
This from Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, my current read – a quote from biologist B.S.Haldane: “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.†Have just begun the book. I am hooked…
Last week i had posted my reaction at Dick Cheney being offended by the use of the word Gulag. I observed that it would have been so much more humane if he had been offended by torture perse. Bernardo, Yazad and I…
From Blogenlust, a wonderful word kakistocracy SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy PRONUNCIATION: kk-stkr-s, käk- NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco– + –cracy. Are we a Demoracy or…