The Great Ganesha

[Originally on Blogcritics] Milos Forman’s (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) latest movie can be divided into two halves: The first half being intellectual masturbation for the anti-war groups; and the second half, a historical melodrama. Putting the two together results in a political soap opera which is as intellectually compelling (and just as [...]

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  ? So it looks like the theory that calculus in India predated Newton’s and Liebnitz’s calculus is back in the news again. I blogged about it in a series of three posts some time back, and it’s good to see that it’s getting some traction. I seriously doubt it will enter the mainstream any [...]

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Picture Source On the 60th anniversary of India’s and Pakistan’s independence (and partition), here’s a quote? from Pankaj Mishra’s recent article in the New Yorker. Cyril Radcliffe, a London barrister, was flown to Delhi and given forty days to define precisely the strange political geography of an India flanked by an eastern and a western [...]

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