The Great Ganesha

Chiddy spoke on the budget earlier today. It looks promising. There’s talk about reducing the fiscal deficit, plumping up the infrastructure and significantly increased spending on education and health for the poor (up by 31.5% and 22%, respectively, from last year). The basic response has been positive, but the BBC’s Economic Analyst Paranjoy Guha Thakurta [...]

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So the New York Times says that focus of Bush’s India trip is to try and contain India’s nuclear development. But not contain it to the point where India falls behind China. They also say that this is a bad thing. I think I agree with them. To keep up good relations with India to [...]

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Fortunately, the article says nothing about intellectual masturbation, otherwise there’s be a minor crisis on my hands…(pun intended). WordPress.com disavows itself of any responsibility from the above joke…

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A friend of mine just got knee surgery. This is my tribute to him:   A parsi with a flair for apotheosis, Was convinced he had asthma and spondylosis, While he fretted over pimples, His disease was quite simple, It was acute hypochondriasis. Well, ok this time it was for real. So I hope the [...]

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Will Smith visits Bollywood and is “blown away” by the Big B’s performance in Sarkar. He wants to call himself the ‘Big W’. He also compared the Taj Mahal to a lake he built in his back yard for his wife… Speaking of ‘Big B’: I was watching ‘Aaj Tak’ (an Indian news channel) at [...]

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Have you guys heard of this? Some (apparently, long-term and well-known) anti-Semite named David Irving was jailed for three years in Austria for writing a book that denied the holocaust happened. Isn’t this a little ridiculous? Whatever happened to free speech? Certainly, I’m no anti-Semite, and I’m not Jewish either, but *jailing* someone is a [...]

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Kevin Nealon chimes in on phone-tapping in Hollywood… You’re nobody in Hollywood until you get on a list. I missed out on the Heidi Fleiss client list, Mr. Blackwell’s “Worst Dressed” list and even the “Where Are They Now?” list. And the only reason I’m not on that last one is that Mr. Pellicano, apparently, [...]

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I hate to say it, but I’ve been close to doing such things myself… Fla. Man Kills Roommate Over Toilet Paper

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Excellent article in today’s NYT about teaching undergrads. Since I’m currently teaching a class of 60 (count ‘em!) undergraduate brats – and, coincidentally, giving them an exam tomorrow – this could not come at a better time. Having received emails like: should i come to class tomorrow? and what’s on da exam? from email addresses [...]

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For those of you who follow these things, Friedman was a supporter of the war in Iraq. Here, he defends his position by starting off saying that he’s not a neo-con, but a neo-liberal… The guy consistently writes intelligent, well-informed articles about many world issues. And you probably don’t know this, but he wrote an [...]

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