Back in the ol’ days, they used to give Padma Shri and Tamrapatra awards for real achievements. Now, the Government of India has started bestowing awards merely for the accident of being born with the right sequence of DNA or right genes, which we presume ultimately decide how you look. How else can you explain […]
People often bitch and moan about how bad things are in India or that things are now deteriorating in the U.S. But few realize how much worse things are in so many other parts of the world like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Zimbabwe or in Western Africa. The New York Times has a P.1 story […]
