Many of us are conditioned or wont to think of terrorists as unschooled baboons or idiots brainwashed into following their leaders’ bidding. Not so. Not so. The New York Times Magazine had an interesting piece yesterday which argues that: [I]n the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
We’ve never been great fans of Indian IT giant Wipro’s Chairman Azim Premji. But tonight, as we slowly sip our White Russian into a stupor the old man Premji is our hero. Really. In a blistering attack penned in an Indian newspaper, Premji belatedly questions in rhetorical style the wisdom of a poor country like […]
We purchased a brand new copy of the 18th edition of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable on eBay recently for $9.63 (plus shipping) and are trying to squeeze our money’s worth from the book. This morning as we were leafing through the book, we found a bunch of interesting acronyms that we reproduce below […]
A Hindoo, and above all, a Brahmin, by his institutions, his usages, his education and customs, must be considered as a kind of moral monster – as an individual placed in a state of continual variance and opposition with the rest of the human race. – Christian missionary Abbe Dubois, quoted in A Reply to […]
Yippee, another attack at Dantewada. Great, just another 999,998 to go. Detest It, Hate It, Loath It * God, we hate the three-letter word Mao. * God, we hate the brute Mao who killed millions with his senseless policies that led to great famines and the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. * God, we hate […]
To deny that Shakespeare’s plays could have been written by a man of relatively humble background is, after all, to deny the very possibility of genius itself—a sentiment increasingly attractive in a democratic culture where few harsh realities are so unpalatable as that of human inequality. The mere existence of a Shakespeare is a mortal […]