Sainath is Innumerate
P. Sainath being innumerate is actually the most charitable explanation for this editorial. A less kind explanation is that his bias is making him too lazy to do his research properly, and a very...
View ArticleNot in Rock Lyrics
Who is more deserving of scorn, opprobrium, and calls for jihad? Daughtry, for using the word ‘closure1‘ in a rock song; or the All American Rejects, for using OKCupid dating test results as song...
View ArticlePolitical Incorrectness Gone Wild
Apparently, Bombay colleges are appealing to their students to refrain from making ethnic jokes, what with the inflamed situation: Several colleges — probably the city’s most multicultural hubs — have...
View ArticleSetting an Example
Writing in Dawn about Slumdog Millionaire, Arundhati Roy says: That’s what Slumdog Millionaire is selling: the cheapest version of the Great Capitalist dream in which politics is replaced by a game...
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Zed’s Dead, Baby. Zed’s Dead.
India Uncut informs us that Rajan Zed is being enraged on behalf of Hindus around the world. This follows a long history of Rajan Zed being enraged by Sony launching a Hanuman game, Rajan Zed being...
View ArticleAll India Radio
Samar Halarnkar is pissed off that Indian FM radio stations only play Bollywood songs and puerile PJs (a sentiment I share to some extent) and proposes a solution in the Hindustan Times – putting AIR...
View ArticleWhat’s With Salman Khurshid?
In the past ten days Salman Khurshid has advocated a return to 1980s Comptroller of Capital Issues style pricing, and also done the headline-hogging complaint about Indian CEOs drawing too much pay....
View ArticleIdiot in Her Head
Sagarika Ghose has a blogpost up that can be summarised as follows: “I went to St. Stephens. I enjoyed it. Therefore I know that the education system is fine, and that all you philistines who did not...
View ArticleThe Sainath Fallacy
I’m sure this fallacy has existed for many years and has already been described and named here, but I first came across it in P Sainath’s opeds. I brought it up again because it seems to have been...
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Christmas Tree Whataboutery is the Stupidest Whataboutery
For the last few years, Delhi in Diwali seemed to be getting better and worse simultaneously. Better, because as the campaign against firecrackers in schools continued, and as the police started...
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