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
December 2017
Reading Tomas Transtromer
THE COUPLE They turn the light off, and its white globe glows an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet in a glass of darkness. Then a rising. The hotel [...]
May 2012
Phony blogging
Trying to blog from phone. Got Dorris Lessing's first novel by snail mail, this book is traveling for 29 years now :)
July 2008
Walking around home
The girl next door has a rabbit now, she says there's male and female in rabbits, so funny right? I thought there were only cute rabbits. The girl says they [...]
Fontainebleau and Downtown Calcutta
You want me to take initiative. You want me to cooperate, voluntarily, with others around me. You want me to learn continuously and bring the benefits of that learning to [...]
May 2008
Breaking the Glass ceiling
When a woman does ascend through the glass ceiling into the White House, it will be, in part, because of the race of 2008, when Hillary Clinton broke through the [...]
What kind of MBA are you?
What kind of MBA are you? An ST MBA, SC MBA, OBC MBA or just another handicapped MBA? Rajagiri college in Kochi in their relentless pursuit towards excellence in social [...]
February 2008
The Shining
Some places are like people: some shine and some don't. - Stanley Kubrick's The ShiningAnd the saddest part of the sentence is that full stop after the don't. I could [...]
Happy?
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be [...]
January 2008
While Obama wins…
She can't be bargained with. She can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever. Despite Obama winning Iowa yesterday, [...]
December 2007
Every year is a 2004
I was closely following this election, and nearly missed the other one. As you know we have close to 30 chief ministers in India, but only two Adivasi rajas. The [...]
September 2007
Hindustan ka dil dekho
O&M's ad for Madhya Pradesh Tourism - Hindustan ka dil dekho. Makes you feel you want to visit the place and that was perhaps the purpose of the ad. Nice one! [...]