Defending the CPI (M)

“I don’t know why Communists are just hard hearted bastards”
- from a comment made on my Tibet post.
Now, I was thinking about it and while I do not believe in the theories of Communism, or the little that I know about it, I am not sure I agree with this line completely.
I come from a [...]

Vir Sanghvi on Durga Pujo

Yet again, I do not know how to write about Durga Pujo in Calcutta. I do not know what to write about. So I am putting up Vir Sanghvi’s account here, and I am sure I couldn’t do it any better. Here goes:
“It’s always hard to explain to somebody who does not live in Calcutta what [...]

To Smoke or Not To Smoke

India has done it again. Smoking has been banned from public places, predictably from the birthday of Gandhi. They imply cigarettes only I think, because the “smoking” of Christians, their homes and churches, continues unabated through the nation.
On a less irreverent note, with all of India’s cries over equality, this new law just proves that [...]