Finally the move to WordPress 2.0 has happened, thanks to Sepoy’s help this evening. For several weeks now, I have also been thinking about changing the WordPress theme. I really liked Zen Minimalism but Scott Wallick’s minimalist alternative veryplaintxt is something I have had my eyes on for many weeks now. I love the clean, [...]
Hey hey ho ho, the occupation has got to go
Hey hey ho ho, George Bush has got to go
On a cold Chicago evening, seven thousand people people march, holding witty placards and banners. Walking with them, too slowly to keep oneself warm on a winter evening, we sight infants and some spirited kids, obviously [...]
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Before we enter the realm of the sublimely ridiculous, time to be serious for a moment. Deccan Herald reports a shameful story from Gonal village in Gulbarga district. A Dalit IAS officer was refused permission to hold his nephew’s wedding in the local temple and use its community hall. The story is shameful at so [...]
How is that for a One Day International Cricket Match aggregate?
Believe me, I have had a few things to knock me out in the past few days but this score card, I don’t get it. I just don’t. When did cricket become a game of sixers and boundaries alone? Does the J’berg ODI deserve to [...]
I learnt from Shankar this morning that the Times of India published an edited version of the following on Saturday, March 4th under the title ‘Lessons from Gandhi’. The link is to the epaper, since the OPED sections haven’t been updated for a while by the TOI; but accessing the epaper is a cumbersome [...]
In late February, Charlie Rose was in India prior to George W Bush’s visit and interviewed politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders, journalists and activists, all of whom primarily represented beneficiaries of a new India. It was really interesting to watch these interviews. With the exception of Shabana Azmi to a certain extent, the other Indias (we [...]