Looks like our Naxal troglodytes are slow to see the attraction of broadband Internet access. Yes, our Bengali babus are lagging badly in the adoption of broadband. Why is broadband penetration low in West Bengal compared to states with lesser population? Are these luddites forever listening to Rabindra Sangeet or eternally preparing for the dictatorship […]
Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards.  – the late Professor Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (p.258) Samuel Huntington, a professor of political science and international relations at Harvard University for over five decades, died on December 24.
Controversial Harvard professor Samuel P.Huntington, in our view the world’s greatest political scientist after Plato, has died. To those of you who may never have heard of Samuel Huntington, he was the the author who made the phrase Clash of Civilizations famous. While Huntington has been in the limelight recently after he wrote his famous […]
Incredible India Ad on NYC Bus * A PWD Engineer M.K.Gupta in Uttar Pradesh is brutally beaten up by local politicians for not giving funds for the birthday bash of the state’s Maharani and tortured with electric shocks (according to the autopsy report). Yes, his wife is now a widow. * Bal Thackeray, the leader of […]
We’ve always believed that rabble-rouser extraordinaire and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had one screw loose in his head. But we were wrong – Bal Thackeray has several screws loose. In what is a clear call to violence, Thackeray has stirred a hornet’s nest by welcoming Hindu terrorists in an interview with the party’s rag […]
Wow, Bollywood babe Preity Zinta is on the Wikipedia home page today (as of 1:49PM EST). We’ve seen Preity in several movies but we liked her best in Dil Chahta Hai and  Koi Mil Gaya. See Preity and Hrithik in the Idhar Chala song. You can see Preity and Aamir Khan in the Jaane Kyon song from […]