Tag archive for "freedom"

SOPA

Announcement

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No Comments 18 January 2012

Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge. Say No to SOPA.

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Remembering Lennon

Poetry, Trivia

Remembering Lennon

1 Comment 10 December 2010

He was the man of peace but admitted to being violent in the past - to being a ''hitter'' of women. When idealists are found to be flawed, as they always are, it is invariably used to discredit their ideal.

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If history is any indicator….

Politics, Video

If history is any indicator….

1 Comment 10 December 2010

I agree that human rights include the right to food and shelter, which the Chinese are trying hard to provide. But to quote an Indian revolutionary, "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

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Don Quixote Acts

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Don Quixote Acts

10 Comments 13 October 2008

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Just because a Jewish nerd with a seemingly scary hair-do said this, it doesn’t necessarily become untrue.

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Poetry

a single word: Home

No Comments 04 September 2008

ONV had written about an expatriate malayali breaking into tears when he saw a cassia fistula infront of a consulate in an arab kingdom. Neruda wrote that a poet’s responsibility is to take sound of the sea to those prisoners in their cells who cannot hear the ocean. Mahmoud Darwish is that one poet who [...]

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