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Time to dump some anachronisms?

Came across Barun Mitra’s excellent article in Mint re. the ideology of “socialism” that all of us are forced to adhere to. Excerpts: “…under the Representation of the People Act, all political parties in...

Beware the colour of money – UPDATED

Some of you must be aware of how sovereign wealth funds are putting huge amounts of money to rescue large US banks hit by the sub-prime crisis. See e.g. World Rides to Wall Street’s...

“Corruption” – as mentioned in the Vedas

I came across this in an email from Prem Sabhlok. It is illuminating. It mentions some specific hymns/riks from the RigVeda on the causes of corruption and how to eliminate them. Here are some...

More on Nano…and blindspots – from Sheshabalaya

Ashutosh Sheshabalaya ,whom I quoted in my earlier post, has followed up with another brilliant piece of writing in The Globalist in which he talks about Nano and India’s impact on the larger global...

Let us blow up Khajuraho…

By now most, if not all, of you must have read about the shameful and disgusting incidents of molestations of young women in Mumbai and New Delhi on New Year’s Eve… What shocked me...