Over in Malaysia, Malaysian Hindus (naturally therefore of Indian ancestry) are being repressed systematically. That is pity but no more than the systematic repression of anyone anywhere. I agree with The Acorn that Malaysian Hindus are Malaysians. It is their… Read More ›
Month: November 2007
Recycling
Woman 1: “What is that little trash can on the screen?” Woman 2: “My son says that is called the ‘recycle bin’. He tells me when I don’t want a Word document anymore and I delete it, it really goes… Read More ›
Loyalty Pays
India is the largest democracy in the world. Or so it is said. It must be because they have elections and what nots. Cargo cult democracy perhaps but democracy none the less. So here’s the latest cargo-cultish news about Indian… Read More ›
Forbidding Expression – Part 2
If your government is manipulated into disregarding the law of the land by rioting murderous mobs, you might be a third-world country. {Continued from part 1.} Taslima Nasreen got hounded out of Kolkata by rioting Muslims. The state of West… Read More ›
SSRS Asks
“Does the breath have any religion,” asks His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. “Is the air we breathe around us Muslim, Christian, or Hindu?” No, I did not make it up. That is what is reported in a recent rediff… Read More ›
Orkut — A social site
I was merely following a link that landed in my mailbox and ended up at someone’s Orkut page, someone called Preeti. She wrote a testimonial for someone thus: ABHAY…..wat cn i spk bout diz person nw….hez a lil sensitive but… Read More ›
Keynes on Economists
Keynes on what it takes to be an economist: The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches… Read More ›
Forbidding Expression – Part 1
The question that faces West Bengal, a state in eastern India [1], appears to be whether a Bangladeshi author named Taslima Nasreen should be allowed to stay. The recent news is that “a minority fringe group” has demanded that Taslima… Read More ›
National Rural Corruption Guarantee Scheme
Over two years ago, in Aug 2005, I had written that the national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREG) will ultimately end up increasing the number of poor and deepening poverty — which of course was easy enough to predict since… Read More ›
And the Address at Gettysburg . . .
Nov 19th, 1863. Abraham Lincoln spoke for two minutes at Gettysburg. Here’s the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that… Read More ›
