Tue 14 Jun, 2011 12:18 pm -
I was looking into India's border disputes a few months ago when I came across the word 'exclave'. I wasn't familiar with the word, so I decided to look into it. What I found... (view)
Sun 12 Jun, 2011 10:39 pm -
Yesterday, I read an article (in the Economist) about Stephen Wolfram, his 'new kind of science (NKS)' and Wolfram Alpha. I decided to go check out his computational knowledge engine... (view)
Sat 11 Jun, 2011 08:20 pm - The 'scheduled castes' are mostly castes from the lowest rung of the caste system, those castes that the Indian government, right after independence, recognised as exploited over the... (view)
Sat 11 Jun, 2011 09:11 am -
I don't think that Indians should complain about brain drain any more. Not because it has stopped or because it is not an important factor: in fact, I read an article in the Economist... (view)
Sat 11 Jun, 2011 09:01 am - I am a fan of fanfiction. Whenever I am faced with a new story, whatever the medium it is expressed in maybe, I am aware of the new world that it has brought into existence. The infinity of... (view)
Sat 11 Jun, 2011 08:50 am -
One summer day a few years ago I was walking back from work to my flat on campus (Warwick Uni). It was a nice day, but I was tired and dirty from all the dish washing, so I just wanted to get... (view)
Sat 11 Jun, 2011 08:47 am -
The existence of caste system often announces itself to me in an unwelcome jarring fashion, much like random dissonance wakes me up from the trance I lose myself in when listening to a beautiful... (view)
Sat 11 Jun, 2011 08:43 am - Democracy as an idea allows a spectrum of political structures for states to base themselves on. We have direct democracy such as practised in California on one end, we have India with its... (view)
