Archive for September, 2006
Argumentative Indian monotonous, repetitive and unscholarly
I fail to comprehend the incredibly raving reviews Amartya Sen’s Argumentative Indian has received. Do people just look at the name of the author and write for the dustjacket without reading the contents of the book? Anyway, at last I got the opportunity to read the book and found it extremely boring.
All Amartya Sen has [...]
I want to die! India is a Suicide hotspot
OK, I don’t want to die!
Suicide, the intentional or voluntary determination to end one’s life, is especially prevalent in India. Southern India is known to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Thousands of farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have committed suicide recently and the government’s response was extremely lackadaisical.
A recent [...]
Law against Love! Homosexuality still illegal in India
Homosexuality is still illegal in India, thanks to a British colonial law incorporated in the Indian Penal Code. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code declares homosexuality illegal; it states:
“Whoever voluntarily has sex against the
order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with
imprisonment for life, or for a term that may [...]
Language Nationalism in India: No more jobs
The Govt. of Karnataka has recently announced the closure of about 800 schools, and why, because their medium of instruction was English and not Kannada. I’m going to tackle the language nationalism with English in this article, not the hotter one regarding Hindi.
All the schools closed are in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India where [...]
Sing Vande Mataram or Quit India
Is this how a democracy is supposed to work? I think our people have got the formula wrong. It is a dictatorship if I have to be patriotic to live in India. In a democracy I should be permitted be as un-patriotic as I like and to even hate the country that I live in. [...]