Posts : Language and Culture

Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's on liberalism - gone too far?

mayank - 5-FEB-2009

These were the comments made by the renowned Russian Author and Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978.

Recession as an opportunity for self improvement.

psaram42 - 11-JAN-2009

The following news item Appeared in to days Times Of India

Tippu Sultan's Monuments

ssheragu - 7-DEC-2008

ssheragu I came across a News Item that our BSY government is planing to shift some Tipu monuments near Srirangapatna that are in the way of Broad Gauge track While the laying of Broad Gauge track is most welcome, it should ot be forgotten that Hyder Ali & Tipu are some of our earliest freedom fighters.

India Shining

psaram42 - 2-DEC-2008

I bought the Booker Award winning book by Arundhati Roy in 1997, but could not complete reading it. However I did not realize this Man Booker award winning "white Tiger" by Arvind Adiga was something different. It is not just different but earth shaking.

Open Threat

sandeepmr - 24-OCT-2008

Quote from article about kannada display boards by Nov 1 

"On Oct. 31 night, around 10,000 KRV workers will go round the city checking display boards of shops and if they find English- only boards, they will either bring them down or blacken them." 

Will those days ever come back

asj - 15-OCT-2008

An old friend from Girgaum (densly populated South Mumbai) found me on the web. I left Girgaum in 1991.
 
But his e-mail or part of it is worth a ponder - 
 

Hindu fundamentals under attack

murali772 - 4-OCT-2008

As a believing Hindu, I am ashamed of what is being done by people claiming to be acting in the name of my faith. I have always prided myself on belonging to a religion of astonishing breadth and range of belief; a religion that acknowledges all ways of worshipping God as equally valid - indeed, the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion.

Happy Dasera 2008

Photoyogi - 3-OCT-2008

Happy Dasara to you and your family.
 

is Karnataka going nuts?..homegrown version of the Taliban

blrpraj - 7-SEP-2008

This news report is utterly shocking. What is even more surprising is there is not one word of protest in the country. Read:

Cracking down on ‘violations of moral code’ in Dakshina Kannada

http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/07/stories/2008090750160100.htm

Tatasky - Eng, Hindi, Tamil, ashtay!

swamy - 31-AUG-2008

Watch tatasky? Sit and watch cartoons with your children. Press green button on the remote. You can now select the audio in your favirote language. This option is not available most of the time. But whenever it is available, Engilsh, Hindi and Tamil, ashtay! No kannada, yaake?

Tatasky doesn't want to do good business in Karnataka?

Tatasky thinks only Tamil speaking population are demanding, baaki janaa not?

Tatasky has competetion from Sun, which is based in Tamilnadu, so care more for Tamil than Kannada, or Malayalam?