Indian Premier League – A Saga of Greed, Corruption and Cricket
London Burnt, Paris Stood Still, Madrid Marched, and Delhi Yawns
Higher Education and Research in India: Whither Its Future?
With or Without God: Minding the Gap with Ian McGregor
Jan Lokpal or Big Brother – What Are We Lighting Candles For?
SOCIETY
In a 2009 South Korean horror film, Thirst, a Catholic priest Sang-hyun undergoes an experiment to help doctors find a particular vaccine, but the experiment fails and the priest turns into something like a vampire – neither a complete vampire nor a human, but something in between. And this what prevented him from burying his […]
POLITICS
The headline speaks of my frustration and anger over the over-placid Indian masses. We have learnt to lament the demise of TV Bahus, and get angry over the dismal defeat of the Dare Devils. We have learnt to live in blips, in Jameson’s “Perpetual Present”. We have learnt, and yet we have to master the art.
SOCIETY
Now that the dust of the pitched verbal battle that ensued from the ministerial words of wisdom over the lack of ‘world-class’ faculty of the IITs and IIMs has somewhat settled, it is pertinent for us to dig a little deeper and weigh Jairam Ramesh’s observations in their appropriate contextual measures.
Video
[youtube width="640" height="390"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuLhHHC_Sn0[/youtube] Toronto. February 12, 2010. God is Not Great (Hitchens), The End of Faith (Harris), and The God Delusion (Dawkins), present religion as a bankrupt enterprise. Progressive Christians (Vosper) acknowledge the crisis but see an honest and useful future for religious belief and practice. Dr. Ian McGregor reviews recent research on the motivational […]
POLITICS
It all looked so Gandhian, so pure in spirit — I do not intend to say Gandhi was pure in spirit, either –, and so pristine. Thanks to an endless series of mindless rattling of Radio Joks (I know RJs call themselves Radio Joks, and in the process are becoming butt of every Joke), a […]
