Entries from November 2007

November 27, 2007

Terrorism Sans Frontieres

Are we becoming immune to violence around us? Terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, riots, atrocities against dalits make no impact whatsoever on us. The media covers all that for a day or two and after that they move forward. The reaction is so predictable everytime there is a blast [...]

November 25, 2007

If a Son is Uneducated, His Dad is To Blame.

Earnest Hemingway said-”To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.” Scientists at Bristol University in Britain looked at the early childcare experiences of over 6,000 children born in the early 1990s who lived at least their early lives in a [...]

November 23, 2007

Governed By The Mobs, For The Mobs

There is something wrong with our democracy. We succumb to the pressure of extremists in the name of regional or religious sensitivities and thus encourage mobs to take law into their own hands. Every political party has compromisedĀ  their principles under pressure from their vote banks. The purposeĀ  of vote bank politics is to hurt [...]