Category: Miscellaneous

A busy few days…

Last friday, we had the second meeting of a small group here in London which is beginning to think about political reforms and governance in India. There were 11 of us…we raised funds for...

Two great ideas…but do they work?

A few weeks ago Amitabh alerted me to two very interesting initiatives launched by Shivraj Singh’s government in Bhopal recently. The first is a website called “MP Samadhan” – a site specifically developed to deal with public grievances...

On Blogs, Comments, Liability and Being Sued

This is a quick post or more accurately, a collection of snippets in reaction to recent news about a bloggerin Kerala being refused protection against summons issued by the High Court in Maharashtra over comments...

What did we have before Tea and Coffee?

Many of you must have wondered about this…I did too. Then late last year, I came across this fascinating Yahoo! groups discussion on the subject…Some excerpts below *** What did we have before Tea or...