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When a person becomes a statistic
I woke up today morning, picked up the newspaper and read the headline “Yet another Andhraite shot in US” or something like that. I browsed through the other headlines before reading the report itself....
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Delhi gang-rape: Some questions
Over the last few years I have experienced an alarming routine. Open the newspaper, read about rapes, stabbings, molestations and murders, shake my head and carry on with my life. The Delhi gang-rape...
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Delhi gang-rape: Some answers – 1
Read my last post for context. Severity: Numbers are hard to come by but it appears that the number of reported cases has doubled in the last two decades. Causes: To determine why the number of rapes...
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Thank you, Sachin
“Poetry,” wrote Aristotle, “is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.” A similar argument may be made for sport. Sport...
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Delhi gang-rape: Some answers – 2
As I write this, the victim in the Delhi gang-rape case is no more. Despite the best efforts of the state to provide medical help. The protests will continue and demands for capital punishment for rape...
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Lance Armstrong
Just watched Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey where he confesses to doping over his entire career. Here is a man who recovered from cancer and went on to win 7 titles in an extremely demanding...
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Narendra Modi – Visionary or Demagogue?
The last time I watched a speech by a political leader was 15 years ago – because my parents used to ask me to listen to the Prime Minister’s or President’s addresses to the nation on Independence Day...
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More on Narendra Modi
For over 10 years I have believed Narendra Modi to be responsible for the 2002 riots in Gujarat – without ever trying to research the facts in any significant detail. Modi’s culpability has been an...
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Rape – and what we can do about it
tl; dr version: Learn to defend ourselves. Another rape. Nationwide outrage. Full page newspaper reports. Condemnations by celebrities and ministers. Promises of justice. Candle marches. Protests....
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Thank you, Sachin
All good things come to an end, they say. And they are right. I will wake up tomorrow to watch Sachin Tendulkar bat for the last time in his career. Greatness stays on however. In the minds of those...
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Falling into the Islamist trap
Unlike the recent senseless massacre of children in Pakistan, the attack on Charlie Hebdo is a calculated ploy. Considering the reactions to the attack, the ploy has succeeded. The perpetrators of...
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Net Neutrality is not about freedom
This post is addressed to all the proponents of net neutrality on the grounds of the freedom of choice of the consumer. But net neutrality has nothing to do with freedom. The principle of net...
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