Of course, the cartoon above is somewhat fallacious in a scientific context, but has significance in the political context and exposes how organizations like the DRDO, scientific leaders and erstwhile governments have been in cahoots over India’s nuclear capability and how we project ourselves as a nuclear state. I have been following the recent controversy [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘india’
April 1, 2009
The Cynic and the Emasculated Indian Politician
Having lived in the United States, the world’s second largest democracy and only superpower, and having seen through an election season here, I am certain that nothing in this democracy matches the scale of the campaigning and the colour and energy of an Indian election. It is strange that India, a country so divided and [...]
March 12, 2009
Politicised Religion and Atheism
TED has a number of insightful and interesting lectures, one of the most witty, interesting and thought-provoking of which, is this lecture by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, is one of the controversial atheists at the forefront of the atheist-evolutionist nexus that hopes [...]
March 4, 2009
The Pakistan Conundrum
Three months have passed since the attacks on Mumbai’s hotels and train station, and much diplomacy and mudslinging between the Indian and Pakistani governments has resulted in few concrete solutions to the problem of terrorism. With a few more perishing and tens more affected directly by terrorism with each passing day in Pakistan, Islamists have [...]
February 10, 2009
India’s Schizophrenic Muddles, Goons, Conservatism and Progress
An important debate brewing in the Indian circles these days, especially in the media, is that of the recent “moral policing” attacks by fundamentalist Hindus on Indian youth in Mangalore. The incident is not unlike other atrocious activities aired with scary regularity on Indian television, although the media nexus in the incident was apparent from [...]
