Posted in India, miscellaneous, politics, tagged aamir khan, blog, cognitive dissonance, dog, funny, humor, israel, lie, obama, quote, shah rukh khan, shahrukh, twisting, words on May 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Aamir Khan writes in his blog that the caretaker of his Panchgani house has a dog named Shahrukh. He emphasises that he had nothing to do with the naming of the dog.
I’m sitting under a tree, on the edge of a valley, approximately 5000 feet above sea level. The river Krishna flows far below us snaking its [...]
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Posted in India, education, libertarianism, tagged affirmative action, arjun singh, caste, discrimination, education, equality, freedom, indian laws, laws, liberty, private institutions, quotas, reservations on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Buoyed by its Supreme Court success on the reservation issue, the Indian government now wants to introduce quotas in private educational institutions as well.
I quote from the report in the Telegraph (emphasis mine) :
The Centre plans to table a bill to introduce quotas and control fees in private higher education institutes in the monsoon session [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, tagged affirmative action, arjun singh, caste, discrimination, education, equality, freedom, iim, iit, India, indian constitution, laws, market, obc, quota, reservation, supreme court, supreme court of india on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The Supreme Court judgement on the OBC reservation issue should not surprise anyone. After all, the Supreme Court’s job isn’t to make laws but merely to ascertain whether existing laws were broken. And in the present case, the Supreme Court decided that nothing in the Indian Constitution prevents Arjun Singh from adding a 27% quota [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, sports, tagged betting, bindra, cricket, freedom, legalization, match fixing, regulation on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I.S. Bindra wants betting on cricket to be legalized in India. I wouldn’t have expected such a sane proposal from a person with a history of saying stupid things. But credit where credit’s due. Bravo!
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Posted in India, news and links, politics, tagged amitabh bacchan, controversy, fanatics, freedom of speech, India, Indian politics, marathi, offended feelings, politics, regionalism on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Amit Varma nails the sad truth in his choice of post header.
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The headline of this DNA report reads:
Tamil movies to be banned in Karnataka.
However, the first sentence of the report merely says
To protest against Tamil Nadu going ahead with Hogenakal project on Karnataka border, the Kannada Rakshana Vedike (KRV), a pro-Kannada organisation will be prevent (sic) Tamil movies from being screened in theatres and television channels from today.
My [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, news and links, tagged ban, censorship, constitution, film, free speech, freedom, freedom of expression, India, indian constitution, indian law, jodha akbar, liberty, movie, offended feelings, supreme court on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The Supreme Court of India has once again put its weight behind freedom of expression, overruling the ban on the film “Jodha Akbar” by three state governments.
It is a sad matter that in India people think they have a moral right to ban things they don’t like. And the ludicrous loopholes in our constitution (think “free-speech for [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, news and links, tagged aamir khan, faisal, faisal khan, freedom, involuntary commitment, involuntary treatment, liberty, mental illness, paternalism, psychiatry, schizophrenia on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The local court adjucating on the Faisal Khan custody case passed its final judgement yesterday. The court held that Faisal need not be in anybody’s custody and can live anywhere he wants.
I have been following the Faisal case since the news broke- click here and here for my previous posts. This ruling is a cause of [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, news and links, politics, tagged India, laws, middle east, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, unskilled workers, workers on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
India is introducing a new rule stipulating that unskilled workers planning to take up a job in the Middle East cannot do so unless they are going to be paid a minimum wage (the exact amount is being fixed by the Indian Government for each Gulf country).
DNA reports (emphasis mine):
In a move that will have [...]
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Posted in India, miscellaneous, news and links, tagged abs, body, neha dhupia, sexy, shah rukh, shahrukh, shak rukh khan on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Google News has been feeding me a new headline everyday about Shah Rukh’s abs. Today we are informed that Neha Dhupia gives full marks to them.
Personally though, I’d prefer to gaze at Neha’s any day.
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Soumya Bhattacharya in a Cricinfo article says that Indians are racist.
I broadly agree with the contention, however I find his examples rather weak. There are several issues that interplay here and it is disappointing to see them mussed up haphazardly - an aesthetic preference for lighter skin tones cannot, for instance, be equated with a moral belief in white supremacy.
He also mandates, with the [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, news and links, tagged blindfold, defamation, freedom of expression, Gandhi, Ingrid Newkirk, jallikattu, Newkirk, offended feelings, PETA, statue on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Not even as a token of protest…
Ingrid Newkirk and the PETA activists had gone to Gandhi Park, blindfolded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and hung a board that said ‘reject cruel sport jallikattu.’
Following a complaint lodged by a Congress functionary, police registered cases against Ingrid and others for creating religious ill-feeling, defaming the national leader, [...]
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A wonderful article by Vir Sanghvi on Ratan Tata.
Meanwhile, Mamata Bannerjee wants one million Nanos to be given away for free…
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Posted in India, news and links, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged cars, jamshedpur, lakshmi mittal, mittal on tatas, one lakh car, people's car, ratan tata, tata, tata car, tata nano, tatas on January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The Tata car for 100,000 INR is here. And it is green too, with a mileage that is almost twice as good as other cars on the market.
I am an unabashed admirer of the Tatas and have been meaning to write a longer post about them for a long time. I will do that some day; for now read this note by [...]
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