Pardon my French but Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is an asshole. He sent his running-dog lawyers to shut down criticism. I will write about that in a bit.
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Cornering the market for spelling bee championship
Well, what do you know? Once again Indian American kids have won the spelling bee. We’ll come to that in a bit. But first, here’s Akash Vukoti of San Angelo TX, just six years old and was the youngest of… Read More ›
Mr Katju, here be dragons
Mr Katju, who is a retired supreme court judge, provided his insights into “abolishing unemployment in India” on social media yesterday. According to him, Soviet Russia solved that problem by “raising the purchasing power of the masses, and thereby rapidly… Read More ›
Trump is the Monstrous Crow
Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar-barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, They quite forgot their… Read More ›
The Wisdom of SS Ravi Shankar
A friend recently quoted SS Ravi Shankar’s profound proclamation. It goes: “There are people who are married and unhappy and there are people who are unmarried and unhappy. Then there are people who are married and happy and there are… Read More ›
Human Exploration of Space is 55 years Old Today
On April 12th, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. The first human space flight lasted 108 minutes. He became an instant hero, as is right since it was an extremely risky voyage and he could have ended… Read More ›
A Path with a Heart
Our descriptions of reality are necessarily based on our perception of reality. But our descriptions are not what reality is because what we can perceive given our limited faculties cannot be comprehensive or even undistorted. The world appears magical but… Read More ›
Viruses, Ideas and their Life Expectancy
The wiki page about virus says that it “is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms. Viruses can infect all types of life forms . . .” Ideas are analogous to viruses because… Read More ›
ADLI: A Lesson from the Age of Industrialization
The transition from an agrarian to an industrial society was the great challenge that faced economies before. Much attention was paid on ways to make the transition. Of the various models of development (such as export-led growth, import-substitution industrialization, and… Read More ›
Institutions Matter, not Personalities
A few days ago in this weblog, I wrote about our wonderful reforms and wondered why we don’t ask what it was that made our economy so desperately in need of reforms. The causes are many. As they say, dhoondo… Read More ›
