Liberal Decalogue – Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell - Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. [...]
May 2022
April 2017
All omens are lucky
Aiming therefore at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself to be carried, even with a slight tendency, towards the attainment of lesser things. Reading The Enchiridion by Epictetus.
December 2015
Keeping up with the Karamazovs
....in my opinion miracles will never confound a realist. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.
May 2015
True crime: Caffey family murders
Like a Russian man who killed over 40 people with deep empathy for a Soviet people who lost their gods and then lost their brotherhood in the post-Soviet era "“ a people who didn't believe any more. He believed the people he killed didn't have a lot left to die.
October 2014
Fear and loathing in America
"Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who live on that level grow accustomed to very thin, rarefied air. They have trouble breathing in lower altitudes; and if they can't breathe right, they can't function."
December 2013
Science Jokes
An interviewer approaches a variety of scientists, and asks them: "Is it true that all odd numbers are prime?"
The annihilation of caste – full essay
Socialists of India propound that man is an economic creature, that his activities and aspirations are bound by economic facts, that property is the only source of power.
October 2013
Good read: on education
when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else. (In 1899, William T. Harris, the US commissioner of education, celebrated the fact that US schools had developed the "appearance of a machine," one that teaches the student "to behave in an orderly manner, to stay in his own place, and not get in the way of others.")
February 2012
Kerala History: Glimpses from 1956 to 2011
Because rather than big events, we have focused on big patterns. And while we disagree on a lot many things here - political, cultural, developmental, social, and personal, I hope we all agree that Kerala got it mostly right in the past 55 years. Because Kerala is the No.1 state in India, here we go, and as always we would like to hear your thoughts.