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Education, reservation, do-good fallacies 14 Apr 2012 | 02:58 am
The business of reserving seats is again on. This time the 'honorable' Supreme Court thought, it would help the downtrodden society a lot if private schools are made to not only enrol poor children bu...
Bloody Economic Times says, Supreme Court judgement is 'unfair' 3 Feb 2012 | 11:31 pm
Today I felt like spitting at the Economic Times. The otherwise respectable English economic daily - the largest circulated one in India - says, the Supreme Court judgement on 2G scam is 'unfair'. It ...
Why is BJP ‘a party with a difference’? 7 Jan 2012 | 12:16 am
BJP is indeed a party with a difference, and we keep learning about this quality of BJP now and again. Look, the way it spoiled its image by letting its Karnataka and Uttarakhand CMs stick to their se...
It happens in India; in Britain too? 24 Oct 2011 | 06:57 pm
A news items carried by Daily Express [of Britain] about fixing of a street bulb taking 46 days and 12 visits by workmen amused me. More because it makes news in Britain while it is so routine in Indi...
Indian society: when will you be civil enough? 17 Oct 2011 | 09:37 pm
A heart-wrenching article on atrocities on dalits has appeared in yesterday's DNA. In Maharashtra, the report says, dalits are not free even to bury their dead. I have visited many places throughout t...
The absolute truth and a particle travelling beyond the speed of light 24 Sep 2011 | 08:16 pm
Today’s papers have reported of a particle that travels faster than light, thus negating the foundation of Einstein’s theories. Sometime earlier, we heard that scientists have decided to dump the cont...
Jan Lokpal: confusing people in the name of debate 13 Sep 2011 | 11:06 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We have seen columns after columns telling us why Jan Lokpal Bill is no good, and that making another legislation wil...
India wins, democracy wins! 28 Aug 2011 | 03:55 pm
India wins second freedom- freedom from corruption freedom from apathy It is a great day for India, despite the cynicism that one Lokpal bill is not a panacea for the country's ills. A lot has been ....
Anna Hazare's protest exposes government's disconnect with people 17 Aug 2011 | 04:30 pm
Anna Hazare's protest has exposed many rotten things in Indian polity, but I will talk here on a different aspect: total disregard for public by our elected representatives in the government. Indian ...
Rahul Gandhi to be the next PM, thanks to opposition disarray 9 Aug 2011 | 01:01 am
The CNN-IBN survey on public mood, conducted by CSDS, is out. The results are interesting: Who is most suited to be the PM? Rahul Gandhi comes on top, overtaking Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh for ...
