Random musings
The practice, of declaring a school holiday when a minister dies, should be discontinued. The only exception — if one is required — is when a sitting Prime Minister or President dies in office. This happens more frequently in India because in the short 60 year time span since Independence, we have had several Prime … Read more
However, when it comes to kicking butt (literally), we are not good. Let’s admit it. After all, we have too much of Gandhi’s — show the other cheek — blood coursing through our veins to be good in this department. All we can do is to wipe the blood off the counters/stalls/rooms, reopen the shop
Like the old Virginia Slims ad that said — though, for the wrong reasons — “You have come a long way baby”, we have come a long way in electing Barack Obama as President. But as the events of the last couple of weeks illustrate, we have a long way to go. Excerpts from the … Read more
When the ‘silent majority’ is no longer silent, it is very good news as nothing else can more effective — in this case, curbing terrorism. It should make it lot more difficult to entice/recruit youth to go on the wrong path. The Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), the country’s largest Islamic organisation, on Saturday Nov 8, endorsed a … Read more
When asked about the functions of a Vice President, Palin gave an incorrect reply which means she doesn’t fully understand the differences between the executive and legislative branches. A vice president has a really great job because not only are they there to support the president’s agenda, they’re there like the team member, the teammate … Read more
8 years ago, Lieberman was the Vice Presidential nominee of the Democratic party. If not for some hanging chads and interference by the Supreme Court, he would have become the Vice President. Then he became an Independent. Lieberman has become close to McCain in ideology that the latter was ready to pick him as his … Read more
The fact that an open-source browser from Google isn’t available on an open-source platform — Linux — is sad. And that too one that is based on Apple’s Webkit. I ran the browser, called Chrome, on Windows; opened a few tabs and looked at the memory consumed. In Firefox, one of the negatives is that … Read more
Hillary made 18 million cracks in the presidential glass ceiling but lost as more cracks were made on the presidential black ceiling. Obama didn’t give Hillary a chance to crack open at least the vice-presidential glass ceiling but McCain was gracious enough to do so, hoping that a large chunk of the 18 million Hillary … Read more
Alathur, Lalgudi, Palghat Thodi T.V. Sankaranarayan, Sundareswaran, Bhaktavatsalam Nattai, Atana, Kalyani, Kapi, Revathi, T.V. Gopalakrishnan, Sundareswaran, Sivaraman, Vasan Thilang, Kannada Gowla, Panthuvarali, Navarasa Kanada, Thodi, Kapi, Yedukula Kamboji K.V. Narayanaswamy, Veeraraghavan, Sivaraman Part 1: Sri Ranjani, Ranjani K.V. Narayanaswamy, Veeraraghavan, Sivaraman Part 2: Ranjani,Khamas Keyboard: Neepadhame: Nalinakanthi Related video on YouTube Related video on YouTube … Read more
Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Bangalore were renamed Mumbai, Kolkatta, Chennai and Bengalooru respectively. Why not rename states? With bandhs happening in the state at frequent intervals why not rename West Bengal as West Bandhall?