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Category Archive for 'Opinion'

Six questions on the Presidential elections

Posted in Opinion, politics on Nov 11th, 2008

There are some things about US Presidential elections I have never understood. Every four years, I find myself asking the same questions, as the same set of issues crops up.  I have never found a good answer to these questions:
1. Why don’t they declare a holiday on Election Day? Why do they force people [...]

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The more things change..

Posted in Opinion, politics on Nov 8th, 2008

It’s all over but the coronation. Barack Hussein Obama has achieved a historic win. As the New Yorker notes, we can now call him by his full name now that he has won, and anyway BHO sounds much better than BO.
On election night, I watched McCain give the best speech of his campaign - [...]

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Why don’t Indians follow chess?

Posted in India, Opinion, Sports on Oct 29th, 2008

For the next few days, newspapers will publish large pictures of Viswanathan Anand and laudatory articles about him. Perhaps they will write about how Anand makes perfect idlis and Aruna dances Bharatanatyam beautifully. But mostly, they will write about Sicilian Najdorf and Nimzo Indian, and everyone’s eyes will glaze over and they will switch to [...]

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Photo theft and how to prevent it

Posted in India, Opinion, blogging on Oct 5th, 2008

Sometime in the past, I stopped reading most Indian newspapers and started skimming them. I was tired of reading the same headlines about politicians’ speeches, about accidents and murders, and irrelevant details about celebrities, complete with pictures of their semi-drunk state.
Where is the analysis? Where is the investigative journalism? Where is the substance?
It wasn’t always [...]

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Bailout bill and wooden arrows

Posted in Humor, Opinion, economy on Oct 1st, 2008

Okay, so the Senate has just passed the bailout bill Economic Rescue Plan 74-25. The bill is a 451 page document, and contains pages and pages of stuff that are designed to put the most chronic insomniac to sleep in seconds.
Nevertheless, I actually tried reading through the bill today. (It’s available here, if you are [...]

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A failed bailout and the after effects

Posted in Opinion, economy on Sep 29th, 2008

The gnawing sensation I feel in the pit of my stomach is not hunger, I know. It’s dread - of the immediate future, of what’s going to happen next, and the frightening realization that those who are best placed to avoid this crisis are doing nothing to help, but may in fact be worsening [...]

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