Innumerable arguments can be given in favor (favour for the non-dominant party) of diversity. That is, diversity of all kinds: cultural, ecological,…
I have been thinking about writing a post about what (at least one thing) to do when life seems unbearably depressive and…
So we have one more reason in support for the idea that patents are a bad idea. The latest is the news…
On May 13th, more than 60 people died in Jaipur in a series of bomb blasts. There were nine blasts and at…
[This is an extended version of a comment posted on the Outlook magazine website in response to an article by Reeta Sinha.]…
The Marx Brothers were two brothers. The younger of them was Karl Marx. The older, well, we don’t remember his name. But…
This has been said by someone else, but I will repeat it anyway: if the new ‘Indian’ craze in the West, Slumdog…
From right after the transfer of power from the British to the local English Elite (the Babus in the broadest sense), one…
‘Funda’ is a Hindi word (or, more accurately, an Indian word, as it is also used in other Indian languages, including English),…
A few years ago I had received some feedback from someone about a research paper that I was going to submit to…
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