Monthly Archive: November 2011

Remembering MahaRaja Ranjit Singh

Today is the 231st birth anniversary of Ranjit Singh, first MahaRaja of the Sikh Empire in north India. He was born on 13th November in 1780 at Gujranwala (now in Pakistan) and had his first...

Communal Reservations via the back door?

How many of you noticed this piece of “news” from about 2 months ago (emphasis added)? The Centre is proposing to introduce reservation for Muslims in educational institutions and employment on the lines of...

On “distant” Assam and “mainland” India

I doubt many of you noticed two innocuous words in a tribute to Bhupen Hazarika in Firstpost earlier this week. The words (highlighted below) were “distant” and “mainland“. The “distant” was a reference to...

Becoming “lukewarm” about Global Warming

Thanks to my friend and FTI colleague Sanjeev Sabhlok for this excerpt. It comes from a speech by Matt Radley that Sanjeev has posted in full (emphasis added). …. Now before you all rush for...