I am a people’s person; I like to be with people. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to be connected with my country and work for my country abroad at the same time. – Devyani Khobragade on why she joined the Indian Foreign Service Source: Indian Panorama Senior Indian diplomat and cutie […]
In a long life spent mostly poring over words, few ideas have stuck a chord with me like political philosopher Hannah Arendt’s famous concept of Banality of Evil. Countless articles and several books have been written on Hannah Arendt and her concept of Banality of Evil. In 2012, an eponymous biographical movie Hannah Arendt, directed […]
(For SI Blog Reader Boops) Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That’s why it’s such a powerful weapon. – Nelson Mandela in the 2009 Hollywood film Invictus The genius of the White Man is his extraordinary grasp of the power of Violence. No other race has understood, practiced and perfected the use of Violence […]
Why does God bestow upon us a sexual desire that he then wishes us to resist. The thing is, I didn’t even know I had a clitoris, Martin. – From the remarkable film Philomena, based on Martin Sixsmith’s book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee I was in Washington DC yesterday with some time to […]
If SI has said it once, SI has said it a million times. Mera Bharat Mahan a.k.a. India has no hope. So what if a few people can spell PHP, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript and SAP. But the Indian DNA is rotten to the core. Salman Khan – Devil in Human Form (Image courtesy – Microsoft […]
By SI’s Tokyo Correspondent Nirvana for Indians anywhere on the planet comes in three forms – Curry, Cricket and Cinema (Bollywood or its Southern variants Kollywood and Tollywood). The world may be better than Indians at several things but none can beat us in food and cricket. And nobody, nobody can make trashier movies than […]