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Swaminathan Aiyar writes in the TOI today on our flawed perceptions and still present firang complexes. Kingsley Jegan commented on the same issue a few days back.
Swami: The British Raj believed in the white man’s burden. Rudyard Kipling saw Indians as “lesser breeds without the law”, of whom no decent standards could be expected. […]

We all ought to know that Swaraj will not at once, or I think, even for a long time to come, be better government or greater happiness for the people. Elections and their corruptions, injustice, and the power and tyranny of wealth and inefficiency of administration will make a hell of life as soon as […]

The 24th Bharteeya Blog Mela will be hosted here tomorrow, August 6th.
The usual directions for nominating entries for the Mela

Email yazadjal @ vsnl. NET net
Drop it in as a comment to this post
Please send your nominations to me latest by tomorrow evening (Aug 6), 8 pm IST.
The entries have to be dated between […]

India has to sacrifice on Kashmir, says Jamali
India is big, should make big concessions: Jamali
Very very funny. Maybe someone could gently remind Mir Zafarullah Jamali that perhaps Pakistan itself might not have existed if India had not made certain sacrifices around 5 decades back . . .

Abheek Barman has an excellent piece on why even large groups can’t swing policy their way if there’s a strong lobby against it. He hones in onto a flaw in democracy (actually one of many) that is counterintuitive. One would expect the wishes of the “majority” to overcome the power of a small lobby in […]

Welcome to my new blog. We’re setting up right now and should be up and ready soon. In the meanwhile, my old blog is still active
Update:My old blog at blogspot is no longer active.