My advisor officially approved my thesis and I now Dr. Subramanian. Looking up by genealogy was a breeze since my advisor's advisor is on Wikipedia. I am an academic descendent of the famous mathematician Markov.

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Several commentators have claimed the Arizona's new immigration law to be unconstitutional. Rightly so. The most controversial provisions are vague in specifying when "reasonable suspicion" exists. It is clear that the only way for a police officer to suspect somebody is their race, which would violate the Equal Protection clause (14th ( Read more... )

I recently came across this blog post talking about how your race affects the response you get in the dating site okcupid.com. The ( Read more... )

IIT Madras is hiring new faculty. I heard ahead of time that an advertisement was coming out on the 20th and I was eagerly looking forward to see it. What struck me most was how unwelcoming it was.

The advertisement started of inviting "applications from Indian Nationals with an established record ..." (emphasis mine). I understand ( Read more... )

I usually stay silent and anonymous (if possible) about my donations. I ( Read more... )

Recently, I blogged about an important dispute related to the Right to Information Act. The dispute dealt with two issues 1) that of hard copy verus soft copy data 2) protecting the privacy of students.

Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi ruled on this issue. The good ( Read more... )

Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi is going to hear an important dispute relating to the Right To Information act. Prof ( Read more... )

Sagarika Ghose is currently a senior editor on CNN-IBN. I am not particularly a fan of her. To be fair to her, I might be misrepresenting her by taking issue with a couple of occasions where she has been, let's say, less than stellar. As with all of Indian news channels in English, she is an active champion of the shouting match culture. Don't take ( Read more... )

India's founders could have installed statues in the Supreme Court to function as judges and these statues would have done a better job than India's current crop of judges in the Supreme Court. For one, these statues wouldn't be able to hear any stupid cases. Like the one about Mayawati and her statues.

I am absolutely annoyed over India's Supreme ( Read more... )

I very briefly mentioned about Indian Government atrocities in Manipur, while talking about the abject state of civil liberties in India.

On July 23rd this year calm unarmed Chongkam Sanjit, a 27-year old was murdered by Manipur police. Here are a series of pictures that document Sanjit's murder. Shoma Chaudhury's excellent story from ( Read more... )