Unfreedoming Speech
Dear Mr. Sibal Let me begin with saying that not even my mother had ever made such a comprehensive effort to remove from my sight everything that would offend me. […]
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Intellectual
Fukushima Daichi and nuclear safety
Contrasting bits of news coming in from Fukushima Daichi in Japan. And I think, as a country with a raging debate about nuclear power, we need to pay more attention
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The Future of Education
The article “A new look at child abuse” details this kind of harm and I think it is worth reading to understand what exactly happens because of our schools other
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The government’s thirst for Internet Control
“While governments can impose curfew to bring ‘offline’ life to a halt in times of emergency, why is it unacceptable to do so ‘online’?” asked @pragmatic_d This obviously refers to
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Poor to Broke: Rethinking poverty solutions
As Mike Todd famously said, “I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation” This is the place we
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RTI Activists – an Endangered Species
News of RTI activists being killed isn’t exactly news, but it hit home hard on Twitter yesterday, when Shehla Masood was shot dead in her car near her home. Well
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Breivik's killing spree and ideological stuff
Not really a post, some thoughts. Beginning with saying that this was a gruesome mass murder and act of terrorism. I applaud the response of democracy from Norway. That said,
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Why don't I support ban on caste discrimination?
Why don’t I support ban on caste discrimination? For the same reasons as I don’t support the ban on sex determination. In the words of Einstein “We can’t solve problems by
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An intellectual deficit in Indian Society
I am rather troubled in this moment. All around, I see tremendous rigidity and an inability to learn. Be it something like the slutwalk, or a political problem in Kashmir…
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