The Diameter of the Bomb  - Yehudi Amichai The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at [...]

Thank God it is Friday! I was so happy that I talked to a credit card marketing chick for full five minutes I was so happy that I celebrated a happy birthday this week Mammooty was so happy, he didn’t slap a single fan this week He was so happy, my Project Manager smiled at me. And hell I’d no [...]

Speaking at a Lashkar rally in February 2000, its top ideologue Abdul Rehman Makki announced that the organisation had set in place a new campaign to “liberate Hyderabad from Hindu rule.” Hyderabad had been seized by force, he proclaimed, and would be won back through the sword. Such language is not new. In 1948, over [...]

The Forrest Gump of Global Terror has confessed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of the three hundred and twenty seven (courtesy : random number generator) people the US considers to be Al-Qaeda No 3. This Global terrorist was arrested in March 2003 in Pakistan and was placed in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The [...]

“My short skirt is a liberation flag in the women’s army,” they read. “I declare these streets, any streets, my vagina’s country.” they read the Vagina Monologues aloud and then they were suspended So sad. What about those men who were fired for using the “V” word at work.