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Basavanna – Self-made, self-aware, self-moral

Basaveshwara, the great reformer and philosophizer,  was born today, as calculated by the Hindu calendar. So we wish a very happy birthday to a man who deserves a lot more praise.

(The Hindu calendar changes year by year, so an exact date is hard to estimate. For example it was on May 8 in…Go on

  • Cleansing India of bad blood

    Image: Thirty-Six Faces of Expression by Louis Boilly

    A common complaint that is sweeping the country is that the grand (and largely self-imagined) brilliance that India could have been has been cut short thanks to the apathy of those most necessary to fix our problems – The middle class, the educated, the intellectual and…Go on

  • Carpe Diem my friend…

    Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi      finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios          temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati.      seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,      quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum:      sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi      spem longam reseces. dum…Go on

  • Boston bombing: A mob is a mob…whatever century

    You know what crowd sourcing is?

    If I walked out on the streets, stopped random people and demanded to know what they thought about whatever issue was boiling up at the time, that’s crowd sourcing.

    But if you ask the Hoi Polloi (Greek. ‘The Many’) of the Internet, ‘crowd sourcing’ means a nirvana of…Go on

  • Four common concepts that Indians skipped

    One of the more weird moments of speaking to a foreigner are some of the references they make to life events. These are moments that held middle grounds in their lives as stepping-stones to the future we know as today.

    Many of these steps we here in India totally skipped to go to directly…Go on

  • What will make you happier than you are now?

    “You seem sad Lord Akoroth…”

    “Lady Rose, there is much to be sad about.”

    “Piss posh, its all in your mind…come now, tell me..what will make you happier than you are now?”

    The most default answer is love I suppose. Love would make any one happier and it certainly would make me a lot…Go on

  • I am sorry America, this is what total war is

    If it feels I am using a moment of American vulnerability to give them cynical tirades, then you are only half right.

    It is not a cynical tirade, but rather just a series of thoughts. But admittedly it is at a moment of weakness.

    So what happened? Here is the link in case you…Go on

  • Why the crow is going to take over the world (Eventually)

    Image: Wikipedia

    We all know the crow. They are those black birds that are everywhere you go, cawing their lungs out at every opportunity while shitting on everything.

    But have you ever really watched them? Discussed them? Probably not.

    But maybe you should…because they might replace you eventually. Prepare for the age…Go on

  • The Rational Atheist – Call me, maybe

    Many years ago one of my closest friend’s died of a sudden, unexpected heart attack. He was 22.

    Some time after his death, morbid curiosity overtook me and I happened to visit his FaceBook page.

    There were the usual pointless “RIP” messages. But occasionally, buried among all the noise, were a few…Go on

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