I have lot of doubts on accuracy of history, of India, about all kings - about all kingdoms! Something does not seem right to me, except British Raj! During their time they had press running in the country, which made things bit transparent. Apart from that there were other secret publications run by freedom fighters. … Continue reading How great were Mughals?
Tag: Politics
My list of ten best documentaries
I highly recommend this set of ten documentaries. I rate all of them above 9.5/10. I know there are many more which may be as good as these; I just did not have a chance to watch them. Please feel free to recommend them to me. An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore. You already would … Continue reading My list of ten best documentaries
Movie review : Raajneeti 2010
Raajneeti was a neat and decent movie, one more from Prakash Jha. I dint feel it was fantastic, definitely not a masterpiece as most of blogosphere felt. It wasn’t bad either, considering most of the Bollywood movies of this genre are disasters. I would rate this 6.5 out of 10 overall. Movie is well presented … Continue reading Movie review : Raajneeti 2010
10 Public Intellectuals
The Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll was conducted in November 2005 and June 2008 by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (US) on the basis of responding readers' ballot. Noam Chomsky : American linguist, philosopher, libertarian socialist Umberto Eco : Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic Richard Dawkins : English evolutionary biologist author Atheist Václav … Continue reading 10 Public Intellectuals
Pseudo-secular silence
Here is one of the reasons "why you shouldn't trust Indian media": The news was simple to understand "Taslima Nasrin heckled by God's own warriors in one of the God's own check post Hyderabad". Just another event God wanted them to do. I read all the news items in Google taking a cue from barberindian … Continue reading Pseudo-secular silence
The Bach 