What a Headlline!!!
June 10, 2005Yesterday 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…
National Traitors?
June 8, 2005This 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…
Hooligans Unleashed
June 8, 2005The 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…
Of Crocodile Tears and Forked Tongues
June 6, 2005Mr.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…
Queer & Queerer:)
June 5, 2005This 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…
Of Gulags, Amnesty and the USA
June 5, 2005Last 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…
kakistocracy
June 5, 2005From 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…
Book Tags
June 3, 2005I have been infected with, what the blogger who infected Yazad calls, the ….. intellectual version of venereal disease. And Charu has passed it on to me:) So here goes. Total number of books I own: Never really counted. But 6 tall…
Moral Quandry
June 3, 2005If i am a pluralist and am intolerant towards and absolutist viewpoint, does that make me a bad pluralist or a somewhat absolutist?
Radio Go Go
June 2, 2005Last year we did a spot of consultancy for one of the top 5 consulants. The area of consultancy was the business of media. One of the areas that was most striking in its dichotomy was FM radio. 1999 was the year…