Jon Stewart cracks me up. http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml
Month: September 2008
Why Pakistan is Useful Just the Way it is
The Acorn says that now is the time to drop trade barriers with Pakistan. Pakistan’s economy is in a tailspin. Since the second last thing that the international community wants in Pakistan is an economic meltdown, Friends of Pakistan are… Read More ›
On the US Financial Crisis
Richard Feynman has claimed that “it is safe to say that nobody really understands quantum mechanics.” He was serious about it because of the complexity of the subject and the counter-intuitive consequences of the theory. Sometime I think that the… Read More ›
Not your average Nigerian email scam
Steve, a friend in San Diego, forwarded me this email. It’s doing the rounds and sooner or later you are bound to read it. So you may as well read it here.
Another blogger on Nehru
I suppose you all know that I love them internets. It is the most potent instrument for the minor enlightenment of humanity. By “minor” I mean that which enables knowledge and therefore prepares the way for the major enlightenment. Once… Read More ›
We must free the Kashmiris
The op-ed “India can’t afford to fall victim to psywar” in the New Indian Express of Sept 19th did not make much sense to me. I find the entire piece confusing. Perhaps I am simple-minded and cannot navigate through contradictions,… Read More ›
On Competition and Ideas
The Dance of Creative Destruction At the shining bright core of our galaxy of ideas lie a bunch of super-massive ideas that are tightly bound to each other. The core’s gravitational attraction holds the galaxy together, draws in stuff and… Read More ›
Stopping terrorism by securing WiFi
Well, now we can be assured of our security and safety from Islamic terrorism. TRAI — the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India — is taking steps to combat terrorism by securing WiFi networks. With terrorists using unsecured wireless fidelity (WiFi)… Read More ›
Pranab Bardhan on Authoritarianism and Democracy
Prof Pranab Bardhan in the Financial Times on “What does this authoritarian moment mean for developing countries?” India’s experience suggests that democracy can also hinder development in a number of ways. Competitive populism– short-run pandering and handouts to win elections–… Read More ›
Hitchens: “Pakistan is the problem”
Christopher Hitchens writing in Slate: The very name Pakistan inscribes the nature of the problem. It is not a real country or nation but an acronym devised in the 1930s by a Muslim propagandist for partition named Chaudhary Rahmat Ali…. Read More ›
