Yes, we do share common ancestors with the other primates. Playing and having fun is part of our common heritage. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8811551493740102634 NOTE: That “monkey” actually is an ape: I am guessing a Lar Gibbon.
Month: July 2006
Censoring by Government of India
We all know that the government of India is secular because they proclaim it as so. Therefore it must be so. Secularism by assertion. So also we know that in India freedom of expression is a right — as long… Read More ›
OLPC — Rest in Peace
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is not going to happen in India. The Human Resources Development (HRD) ministry of the government of India recently decided to just say no to the $100 laptop that Prof Negroponte of MIT Media Lab… Read More ›
Wonders will never cease
The other day an old school friend of mine Ajay (not his real name) came to meet me when I was visiting Nagpur. Talk came around to how his son was doing. Ajay said that the kid was doing well,… Read More ›
Government Response to July 11th Terrorism
Words can never describe the sheer lunacy of the response. Hence the cartoon. Thanks, India-Forum.com, for the straight talk.
Blogpost Contest
Crazyfinger writes to inform us all of a blogpost contest. The prize is a copy of Stephen Miller’s new book “Conversation: A History of a Declining Art”. Check it out. [My apologies to Crazyfinger for the delay in carrying this… Read More ›
In Praise of Blogging
Brad DeLong over at UC Berkeley writes a mean blog, Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal, from his office at Evans Hall with a view of the campus and the Golden Gate Bridge off to the west. He considers the academic enviroment… Read More ›
Back to IIT Kanpur
So I am off today to one of my alma maters. IIT Kanpur where I studied computer science a life-time ago. I am contributing to a volume called “India Infrastructure Report” which will be published later this year by Oxford… Read More ›
Profiting from Terrorism
Public Radio International (PRI) program “Open Source with Christopher Lydon” of July 19th is called “A Class Profile of India“. The guests on the show were Pankaj Mishra, Suketu Mehta, and yours truly. India, according to Messers M&M, is a… Read More ›
How to beat the blog censorship
Try this: 1. Copy this url to your address bar: http://techbytes.co.in/experimental/bypass.php?url=http:// 2. Append the url of the blocked blog. So if you, for instance, want to reach mysite.blogspot.com, you will construct the url http://techbytes.co.in/experimental/bypass.php?url=http://mysite.blogspot.com/ 3. Hit Go.
