Posts in "controversies"

Kicking up Storms

Much hue and cry was raised earlier this year when Sania Mirza, the #1 Indian woman tennis player, kept her...

The Art of Convincing and the Importance of Freedom

A kid walks to her father. She wants a chocolate. She knows the father can’t refuse, but mom has tighter...

Paradise regained

So the Taj Mahal made it to the new seven wonders of the world. A distinguished jury deliberated over a...

Street dog advertisement

Really nice ad showing why killing street dogs won’t help fix the rabies problem. And it comes from the government!...

Copy-and-paste

What’s with people who want to write blogs, want to put up happenings in their lives, want to share the...

Linux myths, lies and truth and why I like Debian

Before this blog starts to seem like a travel blog, let me post something I found immensely interesting and not...

Why block entire blog sites?

Well, the Indian government has decided to block blogging sites in national interest. There apparently were many blogs criticizing the...

Quote on Reservations and Backward Classes

An awesome quote sent in by a friend: “India must be the only country in the world, where people fight...

I am against reservations

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed...

Eggs: Vegetarian or Non-Vegetarian?

In a conversation a while back, Bahubali mentioned that chicken eggs are two kinds, fertile and infertile. Most of the...