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Nonsense masquerading as profundity
I do not read the Economic Times and so did not know that it had a column named Cosmic Uplink (What does that mean?). It recently featured an article by Mukul Sharma titled “There’s nothing less real...
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Is TARP criminal?
Donald Luskin asks “Is TARP a criminal enterprise?” and goes on to describe a number of dubious details such as: …it was disclosed that “nearly 20 preliminary and full criminal investigations” are...
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Sach Ka Saamna (Facing the truth)
Today’s supplement to the Times Of India carries a column by Vinita Nangia on the controversial TV show ‘Sach Ka Saamna’. Ironically the lesson Nangia draws from the show (as do many others) is Facing...
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The Times of India and its liberal writers
Two days. Two ugly pieces in The Times of India. First, in a pice titled Dilemma of a liberal Hindu, Gurcharan Das writes about his discomfort in acknowledging his Hindu beliefs among his secular...
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Secularism, Enlightenment and India
A colleague sent me this link to an article in The Hindu and asked for my thoughts. From the article For a long time it was held that a close link existed between the modernisation of society and the...
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Ayn Rand’s contradictory life?
Via Muse Free, I came across this article in the NY Times by Adam Kirsch. From the article When Bennett Cerf, a head of Random House, begged her to cut Galt’s speech, Rand replied with what Heller...
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What’s in a name?
Shobha De writes …Ten days ago, i received a call from a Muslim friend. She sounded a little concerned. Her anxiety had to do with her nephew’s admission into one of Mumbai’s better colleges. His marks...
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Autonomous political institutions
In a post about Swaminathan Aiyer’s recent article in The Times of India about “freeing the police”, Aristotle the geek makes a very good point: All coercive capabilities of the state must always be...
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When a person becomes a statistic
I woke up today morning, picked up the newspaper and read the headline “Yet another Andhraite shot in US” or something like that. I browsed through the other headlines before reading the report itself....
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More on Narendra Modi
For over 10 years I have believed Narendra Modi to be responsible for the 2002 riots in Gujarat – without ever trying to research the facts in any significant detail. Modi’s culpability has been an...
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