The media, and the social networks are full of discussions on police attitudes towards women, and rape, but what about the so-called aam aadmi ( Read more... )

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/11/ideas-bank/africas-hackers-are-todays-world-class-tech-innovators

When you create something, let it free. An idea wants to be pushed, stretched, mashed, and

* India tests Agni V. Most papers go ga-ga about India's pride and what-not ( Read more... )

http://youtu.be/4q6m5NgrCJs (the documentary is about 55 mins long, and not at all pleasant to watch)

This is why whenever someone calls India, the world's next superpower, mentally I just hope that we become a civilised, and decent country.

I've decided that I'll submit my thesis, whatever shape or form it is in, by the end of February. For the most part, having a real deadline has been a good thing. It's forced me to work, with a purpose. Now, instead of endeavouring to make my thesis a literary masterpiece, I just want to push in all the stuff that I've done, over the years. There's ( Read more... )

’T WAS such a little, little boat
That toddled down the bay!
’T was such a gallant, gallant sea
That beckoned it away!

’T was such a greedy, greedy wave
That licked it from the coast;
Nor ever guessed the stately sails
My little craft was lost!

-- Emily Dickinson

Ted Hughes is finally getting a plaque in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. I felt like I should post the poem from which most newspapers are quoting, in their reportage.

( That Morning )

There have been numerous instances when I've had ideas that, I think, would've helped people. Rarely have I ever carried them through. From impracticability to sheer laziness, there has always been some excuse, not to go the extra mile. This once, however, I did push it through. The results predictably, have been less spectacular than I envisioned ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Bukhari ( Read more... )

Just came across an article (http://students.iitm.ac.in/thefifthestate/2011/07/standard-deviation/) by a student from IIT-Madras, chronicling his attempts to 'come out'. Saddened by the amount of hypocrisy that exists in Indian society. Most ( Read more... )