tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80020502011-08-16T20:07:05.548-07:00Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.comBlogger3451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1142661140105200742006-03-17T21:45:00.000-08:002006-03-18T09:54:32.463-08:00

India also has options. India may choose to be a US client, or it may prefer to join the more independent Asian bloc that is taking shape, with ever more ties to Middle East oil producers. Siddharth Varadarajan, the deputy editor of the Hindu, observes that "if the 21st century is to be an 'Asian century,' Asia's passivity in the energy sector has to end". The key is India-China cooperation.

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The theory he created still stands --­ if I may be excused a clumsy simile -- like a Gothic cathedral, heavily buttressed below but, in spite of its great weight, light and soaring in its upper reaches, coming as close to heaven as mathematics can. Harish, who was of a spiritual, even religious, cast and who liked to express himself in metaphors, vivid and compelling, did see, I believe,

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It's not in our power to stop Bush's visit. It is in our power to protest it, and we will. Read Arundhati Roy's George Bush go home.

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Easterly is well aware of the efficiency of market delivery when commodities are bought in a market and backed by suitable purchasing power, and he contrasts that with the usual infelicities and inefficiencies in getting aid to those who need it most. But the distinction between the two scenarios lies not only in the different ways of meeting the respective problems, but also in the nature of

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The following is a quote from Zakia Jafri's foreword to Dionne Bunsha's recent book Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat. (Zakia Jafri is the widow of the late Ahsan Jafri, an ex MP, who was lynched by a mob during the Gujarat riots in 2002.) 28 February 2002 -- a day which I will never forget. I pray for all those who were killed -- children, young girls; so many who lost their lives

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Finally some good news on the Best Bakery front. But as Rahul Bose says: ... the people who have been convicted are not the perpetrators or originators of the entire cycle of events and selective blood shed that took place in 2002. These people are just the end results of more devious mind at work and I hope that the future would see those minds being brought to book.

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... passes away. Nair's weekly Malayalam column 'Sahithya Varaphalam', which is carried by leading weeklies, has been the most widely read column in the language for the last 35 years. Nair earned friends and foes and often created storm in literary circles with his pungent comments, brief but incisive analysis and sharp observations in his column. 'Sahithya Varaphalam' first appeared in the

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Writers from around the world plan to mark March 20, the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the 'day of political lies.' The Berlin-based Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics, which organizes the annual Berlin Literature Festival, said Wednesday that public readings will be held on March 20 in dozens of cities in Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia to raise awareness

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Scavengers in manholes [India Stinking?] Frontline has a review of Gita Ramaswamy's book India Stinking: Manual Scavengers in Andhra Pradesh and their work. Many anachronistic devices and systems have yielded to modern, expensive gadgets or tools in the name of public good. But behind the question of doing away with the existing system of human waste disposal - manual scavenging - one can

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Alex Cumberbatch writes in, reflecting on the Cheney incident. Is poetry inconsequential As, say, shooting quail? As rigs that syphon gallons? As boot of battalion? Kurd, Iraqi: Serf, lackey. Powell's surreal edition Reads like crude fiction. He delights in his old flame, That damned awful name: Bombastic beauty, Bin Baalzabooby! Behold her hell bent fury, Your only defence, Of Counsel When

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... were together all afternoon. Nobody was drinking, nobody was under the influence. [Link.] That's Dick Cheney on Fox. Wonder why he had to stress "nobody was under the influence" if "nobody was drinking" anyway! Here's Cheney on that day's hunting: We weren't all together, but about 10 guests at the ranch. There were three of us who had gotten out of the vehicle and walked up on a covey of

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Understanding collapsing stars.

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... the team blog where I too am a member, is generating some good amount of discussions. Of course we'll be happy to see more people actively participating in the discussions over there. Here are a few recent posts: Shivam on minimum wages. Uma on dowry related violences. My post about a recent govt decision on wheat imports. Do visit and do comment!

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Eminent Malayalam literary critic Professor S. Guptan Nair passes away. [Link.]

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Betty Friedan died yesterday on her 85th birthday. The following is from R~. The weekend was just like the previous weekend, and the one before. I was attending one more religious discourse, this time by Swami Chinmayananda. As I entered the packed grounds of Nizams college, Swamiji was already well into his discourse. He was asking the audience to imagine that God grants them all their wishes

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Dionne Bunsha's book, titled Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat, is going to be released at 6.30 pm on February 8, 2006. The venue is Wilson College Hall, Chowpatty, Mumbai. The book launch will be followed by a discussion on "Life in Gujarat's Hindutva Laboratory". Haseena Sheikh (community worker and refugee from Pavagadh village), Bharat Panchal (who lost his wife in the Sabarmati

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A few pages to check out. Pablo on the mobile revolution. Economy, Technology or both? This post @ Death Ends Fun -- One less gestation -- is attracting a lot of discussion. Vikrum's Dharamsala post. Looks like, Nandakumar is starting a series -- Impressions -- of posts @ Anamika. Here are Impressions - I and Impressions - II. Here's a blog that I've been reading for more than a month now.

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... how the other half lives. Do visit and let us know what you think! Update (Jan 31): Check out the various posts @ The Other India. Uma has a post on Gandhi. Dilip writes about the rapid changes in India. Shivam is peeping out of the Metro. I've a post about reforms and democracy. And Vikrum will start posting as soon as he's back from the border!

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I was reminded of this little nugget of experience that I had a couple of years ago while reading this short post today morning. One afternoon, there was an hour long demo and talk about the "Art of Living" and the "Sudarshan Kriya" at the institute with which I was associated then. By then, I had heard a lot about this stuff. I had seen people going gaga over a particular way of breathing or

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Reader and frequent commenter Pradeep brings this to my notice: This appeared in a Rediff special yesterday, titled "Saudi King's gift to a Kerala family" by George Iype. The only problem is that Mukundan C Menon, noted human rights activist and journalist, had passed away last December. "This poses serious credibility issues to Rediff reports", says Pradeep. Pradeep has also written to

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About six months back there was a blog post that moved me so much that the moment I finished reading it I had to link to it. I do not read too many blogs, especially these days, and chances of my reading a blog that I hadn't already noticed aren't great. But once in a while you do come across blogs, that were not on your radar, via friends' e-mails, comments or site meter. And I noticed a blog

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Not me!

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Among the Indian owned English newspapers, The Hindu of Madras is probably the best, so far as get-up and news service are concerned. It always reminds me of an old maiden lady, very prim and proper, who is shocked if a naughty word is used in her presence. It is eminently the paper of the bourgeois, comfortably settled in life. Not for it is the shady side of existence, the rough and tumble and

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Professor Thomas Isaac, economist, political activist and co-author of Local Democracy and Development, will deliver this year's Balwantrai Mehta Memorial Lecture at the University of Mumbai. It's on the 24th of January, and the venue is ICSSR Conference Hall, Vidyanagari Campus, University of Mumbai. The lecture is titled 'Democratic Decentralisation in Kerala: Lessons learnt and way ahead'.

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Attended a powerful talk by veteran journalist P. Sainath at the St. Xavier's college yesterday. The talk tried to scan the large body of literature surrounding the acute rural crisis in today's India albeit in a fast forward mode. Sainath indeed pioneered and developed a school of journalism that has as its chief concern the well-being of our poorest and the most deprived. There's perhaps

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This post is prompted by the discussion taking place at Uma's indianwriting. Uma, rightly if you ask me, advocates temple entry reforms, in the context of the recent controversy about the Sri Lankan President Rajapakse's wife's entry to the Guruvayur temple. This is not the first time the Guruvayur temple is courting controversy in this regard. The reports that Uma has linked to in her post make

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Wonder what happened a while later! [Link.] On the topic of Brezhnev, the other day I saw an Ashoka tree planted by Brezhnev in our campus. His visit was in 1961, three years before he became the General Secretary of CPSU. Brezhnev was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet at that time. Prime Minister Nehru had visited the USSR in September 1961 and this was Brezhnev's reciprocal

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Number Theory authority honoured. [Link via Aswin.]

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The second lecture of the Mass Media Vs. Mass Reality series will take place on Wednesday, 18th January, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. The venue is the St. Xavier's College auditorium, Mumbai. Sainath will be speaking on The Moral Economy of the Elite: Rural distress and the challenge before journalism. The talk is organised by the Indian School of Social Sciences along with the Xavier Institute of

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Does coming across so many beautiful things in life so frequently, transfers your "beauty sensors" from your heart to your brain? My friend Amit reflects on his research life, in his latest post. Amit and I were together in my previous inst. I have recently discovered a few bloggers from there. They make a very interesting read. Pen rests and keys speak ... (Amit's blog) Kate. that's er,..

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Check out this nice project by C. J. Mozzochi. Link via Peter Woit.

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Did you know?

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It's voting time again. Last year I made my votes public. Here are my votes for this year: Best Indiblog: Death Ends Fun Best humanities Indiblog: Jabberwock Best Indiblog directory/service: DesiPundit Indiblog with the best tagline: Mall Road Best topical Indiblog: Sonia Faleiro Indibloggies lifetime achiever: Emergic Best group blog: DesiPundit If you like to participate, go here.

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Two obits: Kathakali’s Muslim voice no more. Kathakali's progressive singer. Second link via e-mail from Pradeepkumar. Photo from The Hindu.

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Professor M.S. Narasimhan, honorary fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, has been selected as a co-winner of the prestigious 2006 King Faisal International (KFI) Prize. Narasimhan's co-winner is British professor Simon Kirwan Donaldson, president of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and professor of mathematics at Imperial College, London. The award consists of a

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... all a happy and prosperous 2006!

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A shocking incident at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, yesterday. Check out Abi's post for an insider's account. For me, Professor Puri's death is sort of a personal loss too. He taught my sister at IIT Delhi a couple of years ago. She remembers him as a good and enthusiastic teacher who was also very strict. I hope all the injured will pull through. Update (Dec 29): " ... life has

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I was away in Calicut, my home town, for two weeks. The first two days I could not access the net due to some connectivity problems. That prompted me to take a break from the net, sort of a cyber fasting! I did not even check my e-mail for two weeks. Quite a nice experience, I must say. &nbsp I was also sort of busy with some other things for a few days. Many of the readers of this blog may

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The A.K. Gopalan Centre for Research and Studies in Thiruvanathapuram, an institute of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), is organising an international conference on "An Agenda for Kerala's Development: 2006 - 2015", which starts today. They had organized a conference in 1994, and one outcome of that conference is the now successfully implemented democratic decentralization of

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... in conversation with Homi Bhabha. Sen spoke mainly about how he came to write The Argumentative Indian. He cited India's heterodox tradition of debate, and the rise of Hindutva as factors prompting him to investigate further his 'argumentative tradition'. He also said that he took issue with modernists and sub-alternists equally. The former because in their fear of falling into a Hindutva

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Update (Dec 8): This topic was covered in two posts (Dec 2 and Dec 4) by Abi at nanopolitan. Abi's is one of the blogs that I check more than once a day. I should have read those posts before putting up this post. Anyway, if this topic interests you, do head over there. The issue is so succinctly put over there. Update (Dec 9): Uma had also mentioned this episode @ indianwriting. (Dec 4). In

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&nbsp &nbsp Update (Dec 6): Some more remembrances: For my generation I think 6 Dec 1992 changed who we were in various ways. No one was apolitical any longer, we knew where we stood, and even if in school we didn't stop being friends, I now knew what my closest friends thought of 'them', of Muslims, of history, of Pakistan. I also knew where I stood on the matter, and over the years when

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Tusar Mohapatra on Sri Aurobindo on the occasion of Aurobindo's 55th death anniversary.

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In calling Andre Beteille the "wisest man in India", I must append four caveats. First, this is my verdict, and mine alone. The second and third caveats are contained in the title itself. There may still be wiser Indians living outside India, and wiser women living in India. Finally, I have little doubt that Andre Beteille himself will reject my judgment. Ram Guha in today's The Hindu [Link].

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21 years with little help and no justice.

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The United Nations Correspondents Association has announced its 2005 awards for excellence in journalism. The Silver Medal in the print category goes to Siddharth Varadarajan of The Hindu. Here are the links to the award winning articles: The Persian Puzzle I: Iran and the invention of a nuclear crisis The Persian Puzzle II: What the IAEA really found in Iran The Persian Puzzle III: The world

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... the webmaster of Narendra Modi's website that addressing nicely titled conferences in the US of A isn't, after all, such a great thing to boast of. The webmaster has, therefore, decided to delete the following sentences while updating Modi's profile: In 1993, US Government, under Young Political Exchange Program invited him to U.S. He also addressed the Global Vision 2000 conference in

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The Bangalore based New India Foundation has announced this year's five New India Fellowships. The fellowships are for writing "original books on different aspects of the history of independent India". They are worth Rs. 50,000 a month (for a year). One of the fellowships, this year, goes to Indira Chowdhury who's going to write an institutional history of the Tata Institute of Fundamental

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Loop to Suckerno: In your specific case, I would like to mention an example. Suppose, someone is sick and the doctor is very good and does a very good examination and very good analysis but goofs up the operation, the patient is gone; If the doctor unknowingly or wantedly (sic) neglects some aspect of the treatment, he is erroring (sic). Right? Visit the world of Loop, Hoop, Dupe, Smarty, Cutie

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I recently read The Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry into the Politics of Development by Dilip D'Souza. This is his second book and it was published three years ago. Since I read Branded by Law, Dilip D'Souza's first book, sometime early this year, I was looking forward to reading his book on the Narmada too. Branded by Law was an eye opener; in fact I had almost not heard of the so called 'criminal

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A great initiative. Do check it out! (via DesiPundit).

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Yesterday I read Marquez's latest offering. The novel is tiny (115 pages) and overpriced (Rs. 425). And since it is both tiny and costly, I read it in the bookstore in one go over two cappuccinos, and rewarded the store by buying a Banville instead. I found the book a very satisfying read and I would definitely recommend it especially if you are a Marquez lover. The story in a nutshell is about

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Check out Siddharth Varadarajan's essay: One of the collateral benefits of defeating a country in war is that victory brings with it not just Victor's Justice but Victor's Book-keeping as well. Thanks to Paul Volcker and the CIA-run Iraq Survey Group of Charles Duelfer — which preceded him and couldn't find WMDs and so decided to find a corruption scam — we now know the fate of virtually every

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... meet the last Sunday. Had a nice time. Here are links to a few accounts of the meet: Amit, Anthony, Solzaire, and Ravikiran. Monday evening, I attended a talk by Fali Nariman at the Nehru centre. The talk was on the occasion of Nehru's birth anniversary, and it was titled "The Challenges to Indian Democracy". The talk went very well (except for one or two factual mistakes that Nariman made).

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Indira Gandhi's death is one of my earliest political memories. I was in the fourth standard then. Our classes were suspended, and we were asked to go home. I remember watching her funeral on TV. Only two houses in our neighborhood had television sets. The house two or three blocks away from our house had a black and white TV. The house three more blocks away had a color TV. Incidentally, the

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Olivier Roy writes in The New York Times: The rioting in Paris and other French cities has led to a lot of interpretations and comments, most of them irrelevant. Many see the violence as religiously motivated, the inevitable result of unchecked immigration from Muslim countries; for others the rioters are simply acting out of vengeance at being denied their cultural heritage or a fair share in

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A Frontline feature on TIFR. First photo by Nrupen Madhvani. Second by Pablo.

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That was Amartya Sen's seemingly paradoxical dictum at the end of a brilliant hour long lecture at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, yesterday evening, titled "Science, Argument and Scepticism". Sen's talk, very serious in theme, somewhat heavy with quotations from ancient Indian texts, but frequently punctuated with great humuor, charmed the 1500 strong audience that included many

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I'm pointed to this webpage -- stotraratnas -- maintained by PP Ramachander. Shri Ramachander has English translations of a collection of stotras, with the original, out there. I'm sure those will be of interest to several readers of this blog.

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The Indian Express reports on the Natwar Singh - Volcker controversy: Even before the government decides to ‘sacrifice’ External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh, people across the globe have given their verdict. According to an opinion poll conducted by Expressindia.com, 88.05 per cent of the Netizens have given their judgment in favour of Natwar Singh’s resignation. While 10.53 per cent have

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1130923415373589312005-11-02T01:13:00.000-08:002005-11-03T07:49:33.916-08:00

Read this post at Sepia Mutiny. Makes me wonder whether Hillary's mention of Gandhi was after all just "a lame attempt at humor"! Update (Nov 3): Alex Cumberbatch writes in saying that he has sent a note of protest to McCain. If you like to do the same, do it here.

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... mice galore.

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A quick look at a few happening places in the Indian blogosphere. Dilip D'Souza's post titled The Inefficiency Boost is about our infatuation with GDP. The voltage stabilizer industry and the packaged water industry do boost our GDP. But these industries thrive due to inefficiencies in the respective sectors. Check out this post, if you haven't already been there. Loads of fun stuff too: some

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A terrible incident. Reports here, here and here.

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Today is blog quake day. Check out DesiPundit for helpful links to contribute. Also check out the South Asia Quake Help blog. Here's PM's National Relief Fund. PM's appeal is here: Neither nature's fury nor human compassion recognizes political boundaries. It is in our culture to help one's own and one's neibhours in an hour of need. The Central Government is extending all cooperation and

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I loved reading Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian. It's one of the finest books that I have read about India, a work full of insights, a serious work that commands serious reading. Parts of the book were new to me, parts of it have a fresh perspective on things that I knew of, and some other parts made me happy to see that Sen's take on certain issues further illuminates the kind of ideas

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This post is about an interesting property of the Fibonacci numbers. The Fibonacci numbers, as you know, are entries of the sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,..., where any given entry is the sum of the previous two terms. The fifth Fibonacci number is 5, which is 3+2, the sum of the fourth and the third entries. The sixth one is 8, which you get by adding the fifth term to the fourth,

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President Abdul Kalam expressed concern over a free mapping programme from Google Inc. that he said could help terrorists by providing aerial photos of potential targets. ``You will realise that some of the developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen to provide such high resolutions,'' Dr. Kalam said. [Link] Well, that's also Part II of 55 @

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Something that I noticed today. Suppose I want to link to my previous post. I type the link name in between a href="http://locana.blogspot.com/2005/10/top-universities.html" and /a, of course with the right brackets. The output appears as Top universities. Now suppose I make a typo that instead of "=" I put a minus "-" after a href. i.e., I type "Top universities" in between a href-"http://

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1129300130613573922005-10-14T07:18:00.000-07:002005-10-14T07:28:50.620-07:00

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are ranked the third, after MIT and UC Berkeley, in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement's universities ranking for technology, with a peer score of 86.4. The IIMs too show up in the top 100 list (rank=69). The IITs were placed the fourth in 2004. In their ranking for sciences, the IITs come at 36, a drop of 5 positions from last year.

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Do blogs hurt tenure bids? Check out this Inside Higher Ed story.

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Chinese communist party looks back at the economic successes of the past decades: Awe-inspiring account book figures give outsiders the impression that we are already one of the rich nations, though dozens of millions of our compatriots still have to struggle on a daily basis to make ends meet. At home, impatient optimists appear certain about our expected transformation into an "intermediately

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1129018418365207082005-10-11T01:01:00.000-07:002005-10-11T01:18:14.110-07:00

A business firm makes tall claims in full page ads in prominent newspapers. A magazine tries to do a fact-check. Concludes that the facts do not support the claims. A blogger takes the initiative to spread the word. The firm warns of legal action against the magazine and the blogger. The firm in question, IIPM, "sells" MBAs and BBAs. It's the JAM that attempted the fact-check, whose editor

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1128755408910260642005-10-08T00:05:00.000-07:002005-10-08T00:10:08.916-07:00

News from Tokyo best fits on the Kochi page. [Link]

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The UN Human Development Report 2005 was released last month. A few India centric quotes. Why has accelerated income growth not moved India onto a faster poverty reduction path? Extreme poverty is concentrated in rural areas of the northern poverty-belt states, including Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, while income growth has been most dynamic in other states, urban areas

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1128609537561885172005-10-06T07:16:00.000-07:002005-10-06T07:38:57.656-07:00

The UN Human Development Report 2005 was released last month. A few India centric quotes. India is widely off track for the child mortality target. The annual rate of decline in child mortality fell from 2.9% in the 1980s to 2.3% since 1990 -- a slowdown of almost one-fifth. As in China, the slowdown has occurred during a period of accelerating economic growth. Developments in India and China

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A brilliant essay! Here.

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Why Chandrababu Naidu suffered a crushing defeat at the hustings again? Because "his legacy is still fresh in the minds of people. As is their anger", writes P. Sainath, in an excellent piece in today's The Hindu. The score was thus: Winning more than twice the number of wards the Telugu Desam did, the Congress takes the post of chairperson in 75 of 96 municipalities. It won an absolute

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All the great rishis and maharishis, so-called great thinkers, all the finest minds of our age, - people we thought of until, oh, the day before yesterday as living volcanoes of conscience ready to blow their tops at the first sign of any wrongdoing in the land or whenever the mighty stayed from the path of justice - seem strangely silent and worried about just one thing: how to wangle a

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Excerpts from the World Development Report on Equity and Development (2006) [Link]. I was skimming through the report, and thought it's a good idea to bookmark, primarily for myself, a few of the several references to India. What prompted me to look at the report today was this Hindu article. Despite the great attention devoted to the question of a systematic relationship between overall

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1127742194541114122005-09-26T06:19:00.000-07:002005-09-26T07:09:16.380-07:00

Excerpts from the World Development Report on Equity and Development (2006) [Link]. I was skimming through the report, and thought it's a good idea to bookmark, primarily for myself, a few of the several references to India. What prompted me to look at the report today was this Hindu article. History is not endlessly repetitive and, [as this report documents,] many countries have taken on the

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1127740235723300702005-09-26T06:03:00.000-07:002005-09-26T07:09:32.640-07:00

Excerpts from the World Development Report on Equity and Development (2006) [Link]. I was skimming through the report, and thought it's a good idea to bookmark, primarily for myself, a few of the several references to India. What prompted me to look at the report today was this Hindu article. In addition to being denied inheritance and property rights, women in many societies face restrictions

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1127730723110947442005-09-26T03:17:00.000-07:002005-09-26T07:09:50.066-07:00

Excerpts from the World Development Report on Equity and Development (2006) [Link]. I was skimming through the report, and thought it's a good idea to bookmark, primarily for myself, a few of the several references to India. What prompted me to look at the report today was this Hindu article. Stereotypes influence behavior twice through their impact on individuals' self-confidence, and through

Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03808254503523404702noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002050.post-1126899697057602702005-09-16T12:31:00.000-07:002005-09-16T12:41:37.080-07:00

Via Google maps, he visits places which he never visited. He zooms in. Familiarity of a foreign city now gives way to, well, foreignness. He decides to google map his own city, zooms into streets he knows well, zooms in further and further. His home, his room, his lap, laptop. He sees himself mapping himself. [Via Sunil.]

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Serge Lang (78), a great mathematician of our times, passed away this week. I heard the sad news via Peter Woit's blog. Yale Daily News obituary is here. Lang was a professor at the Yale university for the past 33 years. Before moving to Yale, he was at Columbia for almost fifteen years. Serge Lang was a prolific author. His math publications include about forty math books -- textbooks at various

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... make you hungry!

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Remember the Gateway of India attack in August in which one woman was killed and another injured? The women were from the north-east, and the media said they were from Manipur without really doing a fact-check. Uma had a thought provoking post following that incident titled Many Indias, in which she said: So what questions does this raise about the way news is reported, on Independence Day

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My parents started subscribing to The Hindu around the time I was born. We entered their lives together! 'The Hindu' is the newspaper that I'm most comfortable with. I feel happy when 'The Hindu' moves up the ladder of success, and I get angry when it's somewhat insensitive (rarely though, according to me). Thus the first pointer: Kaps reporting this good piece of news. A couple of weeks back Uma

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In 1976, N.V. Krishna Warrier's sixtieth birthday was celebrated in Cochin with much fanfare. Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup was the convenor of the organizing committee. It was also decided to bring out a felicitation volume on Krishna Warrier and Malayalam literature. As N.V. had no plans to write an autobiography, the organizers thought that it would be apt to have a longish interview with him

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'Asalaamalaikum, kind Cloud Sahib! &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp I, victim of an unkind sentence, am missing my frisky girl these nine months, &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp and wish to get a message to her in Alakanagari where she lies sleepless &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp on a bed drenched in moonbeams reflected from the sickle brow of &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp

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An informative review of a biography of Swami Ranganathananda. It's the first biography of Swamiji and this had to wait this long as the Swamiji was particular that it should be published only after his samadhi. The biography is in Malayalam. [Link via froginthewell.]

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Recently the perspective of a "clash of civilizations" (promoted by a great many commentators, including intellectuals as well as political leaders) has gained much currency, and what is most immediately divisive in this outlook is not the idea of the inevitability of a clash (that too, but it comes later), but the prior insistence on seeing human beings in terms of one dimension only: as a

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In an article about the National Curriculum Framework, Prof. Yash Pal writes in today's The Hindu: When one talks of individual creativity, one might be accused of "neo-liberal" tendencies. I do not know what sort of abuse that implies, but I cannot accept that any society should feel threatened by the encouragement of individual passion to understand in preference to voluminous short-term

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P. Sainath on torching of Dalit assets that happens so frequently in our midst: About the time 50 Dalit houses were set ablaze in Gohana, the country marked 50 years of a law giving effect to the Constitution's abolition of untouchability. As if to rub in the irony, 25 more Dalit homes have been torched in the same week. This time in Akola, Maharashtra. [Link added.] ... ... Was Gohana 2005 a

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... surprised in this morning's class when my students greeted me with teachers' day wishes! I don't think I cared about these days in a long long time, perhaps after reaching the high school. Anyway it felt nice! They also had a cute card which featured something related to our syllabus. And a nice little gift, and Cadbury Eclairs! Happy teachers' day to all the teachers among my readers.

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Yesterday marked the second anniversary of Deesha -- Atanu Dey's blog. Best wishes to Atanu. Lots of blogiversaries recently -- Dilip, Charu, Ramnath, and Kaps. I started counting from mine. (An August bunch as Abi puts it!) A few months ago, I had a post about Dilip D'Souza's Branded by Law, a thoroughly researched and touching work about India's Denotified and Nomadic Tribes (DNT's). Some

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The Hindu has a front page article on Sudoku today. The article quotes Wayne Gould, the New Zealander who popularized the game: It will fade, but I don't expect it to disappear for good. Well, it has already faded for me. I don't do Sudoku anymore. Here's my first Sudoku post. Incidentally, this post got the maximum number of visitors for any single post @ Locana. The second most popular post

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How can we stop being pillsters? First by accepting our frailties and by acknowledging that falling ill is part of a healthy life. Vijaya Venkat, who has lived without medicines for the last 22 years, says: "Absence of disease is not health, absence of health is disease." So rather than popping a pill, try feeding your cold. If you are browsing, visit a reputed and independent medical site and

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When hospitals could take no more victims, the bodies were laid side by side on the footpath and covered with white cloths and foil blankets. It was a scene of raw and pitiable emotion as women pulled back the covers in a desperate search for loved ones. [Link.] Hospitals struggled to evacuate critically ill patients who were dying for lack of oxygen, insulin or intravenous fluids. But when

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-- the money believed to be spent on campaigining in this year's Delhi University Students Union elections [Link].

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