Archive for April, 2010

What is Progress? – The Arundhati Roy-Maoist saga

As I read through Arundhati Roy’s magnum opus article in The Outlook on the Maoists and their plight, I was struck by one thought which was probably the underlying fundamental of the entire issue – What is progress? Rather, how do you define progress? Some examples of progress are universally agreed upon. For example, – [...]

Ranting News

1) The much awaited and eagerly hyped marriage has indeed come to an end. No, I am not talking of the Indo-China bhai-bhai pact or the India-Pak Aman ki Asha initiative coming to fruition. The talk of the town has indeed been the Shoaib Malik-Sania Mirza nikah. The media as usual went ga-ga over a [...]

Faulty Atheism Articles

I came across two articles on Atheism recently from two different, but reputed authors. One from Jug Suraiya in Times of India. (Atheism is the best worship) The other from Manu Joseph in OPEN magazine. (The Decency of the Atheist) As you can guess from the titles (do read the articles too!), the authors are [...]