Where the mind is maybe with a little fear but the head is held high
Where there is no Blogger to corrupt the thoughts
Where there is no Facebook to waste time
Where there is no Twitter to inform the world that you are
brushing your teeth
Where there is no YouTube so that you don’t watch Justin Bieber
Where there is no Google for you to check what sesquipedalian
means
Where...
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Monday, 18 November 2013
No Tim, No
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion , as the saying goes. It is not just important to be right, you must also appear to be right. This is even more important for very public figures. That is why this post is titled No Tim, No .
Timothy Geithner, the former Treasury Secretary (in Indian parlance, Finance Minister) is going to become the President of Warburg Pincus, an investment banking firm....
Sunday, 10 November 2013
Wonga Wonga
If you are a Brit, you know Wonga very well. If you aren't, you probably have not heard of them. Ed Miliband, Britain's opposition leader even called the ruling government's philosophy, the "Wonga economy". This post is a continuation of my struggle with moral dilemmas - its been that sort of a time these days. What was black and white long ago, now, appears to be impossible shares...
Friday, 8 November 2013
Are all jobs OK ?
Are there "good" jobs and "bad" jobs ? Are some jobs inherently demeaning in nature and therefore to be banned ? Or is the economic imperative an acceptable argument for any job where there is demand and where people do of their own free will ? Unforced prostitution is one such example. Manual...
Sunday, 3 November 2013
The US Treasury should be ashamed of itself
There is nothing more irritating than somebody who pontificates. Even more irritating is if the guy has absolutely no credentials to pontificate on the subject in question. Imagine the Pontiff (if you'll pardon the pun) lecturing on the merits of Viagra. Or Sarah Palin extolling the merits of Shakespeare. Or even this blogger blogging about Kollywood !!
That is how I can best describe the...
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