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One of the major events in Bombay this March is a staging of the Vagina Monologues on International Women’s Day. The play is not new to Bombay, it’s been running since last year. I saw it last year with friends and found it very funny. Somehow I missed the undertones that Cathy Young finds […]

A letter in the Economist.
SIR –The Economist has offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Chicago, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Paris, San Francisco and Singapore—exceedingly expensive cities to employ journalists. There are doubtless thousands of English-speaking journalists in Delhi and Chennai who would bash away at keyboards for far less pay and expenses. I look forward […]

Often, there I’ll be, debating how meaningless I consider something like
astrology, and someone will say, “MadMan, you say you’re a libertarian.
Then why don’t you show any tolerance for the views of others?”

Ah… “tolerance”. In India, most of us are taught as children to
“respect your elders”, “respect other people’s views” and
other such unconditional statements. That’s a […]

The latest issue of Outlook magazine has a piece titled The
Body Electronic that I found… strange.
It masquerades as an article about exposing the Indian sex sites on the
Internet and how they’re hawking women to willing customers. If I didn’t know better, I’d call it an "advertorial" for the sites in
question. The writer goes all out […]

Ram Jethmalani claims that he was a boy scout. (Scroll down to the end of the article). I’m not sure what to make of that, but it brought back memories of my times as a scout. So, I did a few preliminary google searches.
My old scout troop — 13th East Bombay — has it’s own […]

Look people, Nehru’s claim to greatness is that he was supposedly a visionary. A visionary doesn’t mean “someone who saw visions”. If your visions are any different from hallucinations, then they must roughly correspond to what actually happens in the future. So if you think that Nehru was a visionary, then it is only […]

AnarCapLib was hit by 80+ spam comments in the last few hours. I’ve just managaed to delete them all (and ban the IP). I think I’d have to do more than just periodically delete these spam comments.
Most of the spam hits old posts. I am going to close comments on posts that are more […]