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So they worked it out. The Congress (I) and the Left agreed on a Common Minimum Programme for this country, even though the Left’s outdated ideas have died in the very countries from which they came.
Suman Palit, a fellow Libertarian, however is not impressed. He recommends, “…if you have money invested in India, I […]

“I’m not religious; I’m spiritual”
I’ve heard this a fair few times, and it’s always puzzled me. First of all, the whole “spirituality” concept is fuzzy in my mind, possibly because different people have different ideas about what it means to be spiritual. It doesn’t help that every other Tom, Dick, and Dickless fella has written […]

Happy birthday to guest blogger Ravikiran Rao, who turns 37 today. Since he’s taking a break from his site (just like I am), y’all can drop your wishes and b’day bumps right here.
I’m kidding about his age. He’s not a day over 35 29.

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 […]

Who says Indians are not innovative? This latest invention could make waves.
Shanti, surely this will help us poor Indians, eh? ;)

The tripe that is published these days is astonishing. Like this “story”:
Indian, Pak actresses can save Earth from Mars omen

If some of the popular Indian and Pakistani actresses dress up with full make up and offer prayers as the planet Mars comes close to Earth on Wednesday, it would be a […]

It’s bad enough that so many innocent people get killed in bomb blasts. But it’s infuriating to read news like this:
Intelligence agencies warn of more attacks
The Central government has been warned of the existence of more independent modules of terrorists who could strike terror in Mumbai.
The commercial capital could witness more terrorist acts ‘after […]

This is a howler! God may not be directly there, but I put “spiritual guidance” in the same boat.
Food columnist suing spiritual advice columnist for more than $1M