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The Great Inequality Debate - II: What's Wrong With Inequality? 29 Dec 2011 | 05:21 am
This is the second part of a rather long blog post on economic inequality that I set out to write a couple of weeks ago. The first part dealt with definitions, scope and taxonomy and established key f...
The Great Inequality Debate - I: A World Of A Difference 17 Dec 2011 | 09:10 pm
Over the last couple of years there's been quite a bit of talk about economic inequality, in the wake of the global economic crisis. More recently, thanks to the Occupy (Wall Street, etc.) protests, i...
Terror: What Are We Fighting? 26 Jul 2011 | 02:43 am
The terror attacks in Mumbai and Oslo within the span of just this one month left me deeply disturbed at a personal level. While Mumbai is home to me and my family, Oslo is home to some very dear frie...
Apostatic Alumnus? Or Pragmatic Patriot? 27 May 2011 | 01:00 am
India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, whose observations and comments invariably attract controversy every now and then, opined to the press the other day that the faculty at the IITs and the II...
Amis on Hitchens: Something's amiss and that's the hitch 26 Apr 2011 | 07:36 pm
Regardless of his sexuality and sexual orientation/ preferences (I neither know nor care what they are) Martin Amis's love for his friend Christopher Hitchens, as evident in his recent article about H...
How to write a blog post criticizing Anna Hazare and the Jan Lok Pal Bill 14 Apr 2011 | 09:26 pm
Apparently many ardent and strident bloggers still want to write critical blog posts on the subject that had grabbed last week's headlines: Anna Hazare's fast and the Jan Lok Pal (JLP) Bill. It is nec...
My WikiTake on WikiLeaks: Assess Before Assassinating Assange 5 Dec 2010 | 04:40 am
The big buzz worldwide this last week, more or less a week after the leakage of the Radia tapes in India, was around the WikiLeaks controversy. Even as I write this blog entry, opinion clouds in cyber...
The Fraud of All Things (or, The Case for the Sedation of the Seductive Seditionist) 27 Oct 2010 | 08:55 pm
I am not against the very idea of discussing Kashmir's secession from the Indian Union. There, I've said it. Not that I am in favour of secession either -- certainly not, all else being equal. But hey...
Relief and Ground 27 Jul 2010 | 04:52 pm
There are times when I sit back and observe my 6 year old at play with his friends -- those simple games, those minor squabbles, those negotiations and reconciliations, those squeals of delight, those...
Migration Migraines: Going Against My Grain 11 Jul 2010 | 03:15 am
Some time last week an article by Vivek Wadhwa (written, no doubt, in the wake of President Obama's recent speech about immigration reform) caught my attention. As I read through this article and foll...
