Posted in India, tagged anime, bhabhi, cartoon, comic, India, porn, pornography, savita bhabhi, sex, toon on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
In case you haven’t done so yet, do check out Savita Bhabhi, India’s first online pornographic cartoon strip. The stories are fairly standard and the art-work good though not top-class. It is appealing nonetheless. In fact, barely two months after its launch, it’s traffic rank in India — according to Alexa — is currently an astounding 66.
Which, of [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged India, laws, privacy, blackberry, security, encryption, wiretapping, rim on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The Indian government wants to be able to read all emails and messages sent by citizens. (Privacy, you say? Don’t be silly. We live in an age of terrorism. Hehe, those naive libertarian notions.)
However it discovers it is unable to decrypt the ones sent by Blackberry devices.
Pissed, it asks the parent company, RIM, to help it snoop. Hard luck, says RIM, [...]
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Posted in India, news and links, people, tagged bollywood, funny, hilarious, hindi, icon, India, obama, song, tribute, video on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Bollywood-ishtyle.
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Posted in India, libertarianism, tagged India, freedom, caste, discrimination, indian constitution, supreme court, supreme court of india, laws, affirmative action, reservation, obc, iit, iim, market, quota, arjun singh, education, equality 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, news and links, politics, tagged India, freedom of speech, Indian politics, offended feelings, controversy, regionalism, amitabh bacchan, marathi, fanatics 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 India, freedom, censorship, movie, liberty, ban, freedom of expression, constitution, indian constitution, offended feelings, supreme court, jodha akbar, free speech, film, indian law 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, 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, uncategorized musings, tagged cricinfo, cricket, India, indian racism, political correctness, racism, soumya bhattacharya on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
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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I was a young lad once and like most kids was susceptible to the perceived infallibility of the written word. To give a relevant example, it wasn’t apparent to me that our civics text-books were less fact and more a bunch of Nehruvian platitudes. But even then, I often wondered about the role of the [...]
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Posted in India, people, politics, tagged godhra, gujarat, gujarat elections, gujarat polls, gujarat riots, India, modi, narendra modi, secularism on December 24, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Narendra Modi is back in style, winning 117 out of the 182 seats in the Gujarat assembly.
There are many legends about Narendra Modi. One is that he works sixteen hours every day, election or no election. Another claims that he is a loner to the extent that he always eats alone and never entertains any [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, news and links, politics, tagged India, freedom of speech, censorship, Mayawati, Uttar Pradesh, Madhuri Dixit, Aaja Nachle, ban, caste on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Mayawati doesn’t like Madhuri Dixit the ‘casteist’ remarks in Madhuri’s film. And this being India, if you don’t like something, you ban it.
Related post: Offended feelings.
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It was inevitable, after all. No one really expected the peaceful demonstrations of unarmed monks- no matter how many- to overthrow a miltary dictatorship. Yet, in this age of false propaganda, it is rare to have a genuine public movement for democracy, and Myanmar was perhaps the most genuine of them all. When such a [...]
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Karunanidhi reiterates his views about Ram. The saffron brigade howl in horror at the blasphemy and promptly immolate themselves. (Ok, I made up the second sentence. But wouldn’t that be great!) Meanwhile, there is a fatwa against Salman Khan for attending Ganesh Puja.
I laugh at the farce. Then I realise it is real, and grieve [...]
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