According to this article, “Déjà vu — French for “already seen” — describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously“.
The author also mention that “the experience of déjà vu is often accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and a sense of ‘eeriness’, ‘strangeness’, or ‘weirdness’.”
I experienced the feeling last week as I was clearing my reading backlog.
From an article in the early-May issue of TIME Magazine, titled, “Republicans in Distress: Is the Party Over?” comes this brief excerpt:
These days, Republicans have the …

I was introduced to “IndianKanoon” a few days ago by Sushant.
In his email Sushant wrote: “I am a PhD student in University of Michigan and I (have) started a search engine for Indian law called Indian Kanoon last year.”
That did not sound very exciting – until I remembered that there was a High Court ruling that I had been desperately trying to get a copy of.
I decided to try IndianKanoon out. I was not disappointed.
Sushant has done a great job here. The site is a huge help to find relevant …

…of Indian Hindus.
M J Akbar in BJP, Left face existential dilemma:
India is not a secular nation because Indian Muslims want it to be secular. India is a secular nation because Indian Hindus want it to be secular.
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Syed Shahabuddin, Convenor, Babri Masjid Coordination Committee in ‘Sunday‘ dt. March 20, ’83 [ link ]:
Hindus profess secularism because they are cowards and are afraid of Muslim countries.
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I am traveling until the 20th …

“I have often thought that if I had any epitaph that I would rather have more than another, it would be to say that I had disturbed the sleep of my generation.”
- Adlai Stevenson 
Related: A few past quotes here.

This “lazy” post* was inspired by a comment left by Prakash on another thread. In his comment, Prakash carried further the argument (first put forward by AG) that Indians are not particularly smart and/or have low IQ.
Below are extracts from comments on this topic (reproduced from the previous post).
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Extract from comment by AG (that triggered the debate)
…Having said that, i notice a lot of reticence in accepting what is otherwise a very obvious but uncomfortable reality: the average indian voter is not particularly smart.
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Comment by Prakash:
Hi AG, Have you seen …

On the cover of Sanjeev Sabhlok’s first book, “Breaking Free of Nehru” is a short quote by Gurcharan Das. He says: “It must be read by every Indian”.
I cannot agree more.
Whether or not you agree with the crisp, bordering on the combative, title of the book, I guarantee you will find it thought-provoking and disturbing.
“Breaking Free of Nehru” can best be summarised as an “Ode to Freedom”. The book is heavily influenced by the liberal philosophy of thought, by thinkers such as Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman and makes …