I enjoy using the microblogging site Twitter. I think Twitter is a great idea – it is essentially short messaging for the web, combined with a social networking framework and user mentions and tags (hashtags). As someone who didn’t think much about the basic idea of Twitter when it started out, I am truly impressed [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Politics’
November 21, 2009
Violent Trends in Indian Society
Yesterday’s attacks in Mumbai on the IBN television channel’s offices are just another incident in a long string of events that have marked dissonance breeding within our society. Two of India’s greatest threats from within are the regional and factious tendencies bursting forth from the society. The regionalism is a result of more than sixty [...]
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 [...]
