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Blatant bid to swindle
The Tamilnadu Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi's steadfast insistence on the construction of Sethu Samudram project and his sidekick, the Central Environment and Shipping minister Mr.T.R.Baalu's enthusiasm and energy for this project are a blatant bid for swindling billions of public money with scant respect for the eco-sensitivity of the region ( Read more... ) -
Deeper malaise
The Supreme Court of India's verdict in favor of providing reservation to OBCs is welcome, but not for the panacea that the Indian politicians say that the verdict will prove to be ( Read more... ) -
Numbers
This article in Economist laments that the state of mathematics education in the US is in doldrums. It says that the US maintains it's lead position in the research output in pure Math by importing talent from other countries and says that the future is bleak if this run continues ( Read more... ) -
Sujatha - a tribute
Sujatha, the Tamil writer, passed away last week. It was known that he was not keeping great health ; he had written about his cardiac surgeries a few ( Read more... ) -
Basic Instinct
It's official. The default position is to believe in God. So does denying God mean that one dehumanizes oneself ? The answer is not a flippant one -- if one were to say that there are so many humane atheists, it is possible that the atheists are trying to prove a point by "living up" to the believers. As I said, the answer is not an easy one. -
Learnability
If something as complex as a human language can be institutionalized and taught to every sane person, as it is done today, to me it means that *any* skill -- however nerdy -- can be taught to everyone. -
Obamagic
I don't understand the excitement over Obama. The only president who seems to have made an impact, is, of course, Mr.Bush. And how !! -
Back
It's quite a bit of gap. It's more than a month now.
I have switched jobs.
I have been making more attempts
towards spiritualism.
I have been denying myself certain simple pleasures.
I think that I am growing up. It is a good way to start a year. -
Novel
When I was 7 or 8 years old, there was this translated weekly episode of a Malayalam novel published in the Tam weekly "Saavi". The novel was "Krishna Parundhu", written originally in Malayalam by P.V.Thambi (translated into Tam by Sivan). I sporadically read a couple of episodes. The plot,set in a time may be a hundred years ago in Kerala, is ( Read more... ) -
Say cheese
Making cheese requires using something that can be obtained only by killing a calf. Indian vegetarians need to make note of this.