Thursday, September 22, 2011

New poll

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Look to your right: I have put up a new poll after ages to gauge reader opinion. You may select multiple options. Polling closes midnight, 3...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

America, the beautiful!

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There was this  front page article  in my newspaper ( The Telegraph ) on September 12 titled ‘Osama gone, hunger gnaws’, discussing how pov...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

Hachiko

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Just watched this 2009 movie starring (not really) Richard Gere. It’s about the oldest bonding in human history, something that long pre-...
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Friday, September 02, 2011

Crusaders, stand up and be counted!

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The last post I wrote about the ongoing anti-corruption ‘crusade’ ( A most frightening prospect ) has been visited and commented upon a grea...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Superheroes

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An elderly gentleman came to seek counsel yesterday about his grown-up son (who had been my pupil once) who is pushing thirty, with a pregna...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Oh Albion, beware India...

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I shall carry on with the thread of what I was musing over in the last blogpost, especially with reference to the two articles whose links h...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Oh, Albion...

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I have been avidly reading the news coverage of the orgy of rioting, looting and vandalism that has suddenly engulfed so many towns in Engla...
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Friday, August 05, 2011

A choice of icons

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I read this very weird editorial in my newspaper yesterday. It says – quite justifiably – it is a pity that while we are going gaga publicl...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Sir and Madam, if you please

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My wife was laughing the other day when our long-time insurance agent suddenly started addressing her as ‘Madam’. Both are Bengalis, mind yo...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Pausing for a while...

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Something that sometimes saddens and sometimes irks me is to see comments coming in saying things which make it obvious that the writer has ...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Adieu handwriting?

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Some schools in the state of Indiana, USA, are bidding goodbye to handwriting as an essential and fundamental skill to be acquired by all ...
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Friday, July 08, 2011

Quirky lists

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It’s July 8 th today: Shilpi has just reminded me that my blog is now five years old (see the post titled ‘Four years old’ written a year ...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

A Telephone Conversation

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( with a doff of the hat to Wole Soyinka ) An old girl rang me up from distant Bangalore last night, essentially because she wanted to hea...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Summarizing Harry Potter

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In recent years I have been re-reading and rewatching some great books and movies. So I read through the Mahabharata, Asimov’s Foundation se...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

College admissions: curiouser and curiouser...

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There is a certain elite college in Delhi which specializes in teaching commerce (much abused among the engineering fraternity – please re...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Science contemporary style

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This link to an article written by someone who ought to know the inside story of drug-development research should send shivers down many ...
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Brief holiday

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It was my half-yearly one week holiday, and I try to stay off the Net as much as I can during such times, hence the delay in posting. ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Sal forests and driftwood collectors

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My wife and I often simply run away together on the scooter to take a deep breath of fresh air whenever the life of the city begins...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Salaam Mamata!

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Shabaash, Mamata! Be careful. Remember your promises. And God be with you.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

An archive of infinite value

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Google has done all mankind a signal service by helping to put online the historical resources of Yad Vashem , the Jerusalem based centr...
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Saturday, May 07, 2011

Poll update

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I feel more enthusiastic to cast my vote as I grow older: when I was young, I was too cynical to take the trouble. Today was polling day in...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Self-assured, or merely pig-headed?

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A very interesting idea raised by a recent comment-writer is that I sound very ‘self-assured’ in this blog. I could choose to be facetious ...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

What news is news?

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Very big recent news headlines: Satya Sai Baba has passed away. Prince Wi lliam is getting married. Winds of change are blowing strongly...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Kids at a loose end

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There’s a girl I met on the street yesterday, a 16-year old who’s recently become an ex-pupil. She finished writing her secondary board exam...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

A most frightening prospect

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A lot of people have been asking me to comment on what Anna Hazare and his supporters have recently and spectacularly achieved with their ag...
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