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This is cowardly act of terrorist nature. We will deal with it. We will never succumb to the pressure of terrorism,
- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after the latest Terrorist Attack in India
Just as night follows day, terrorists continue to strike in India with impunity.
In the latest incident, terrorists struck at the Delhi High Court this morning via a suitcase bomb killing 11 and injuring over 60 people.
There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities and wild fancies. It would be easier to find a person who would avow actions like those of Caesar Borgia, or Danton, than one who would publish a daydream like those of Alnaschar and Malvolio. Those weaknesses which most men keep covered up in the most secret places of the mind, not to be disclosed to the eye of friendship or of love, were precisely the weakness which Boswell paraded before all the world. – T.B.Macaulay in essay on Samuel Johnson
We’re great fans of Macaulay for his trenchant style of writing.
Macaulay’s essays on Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, Samuel Johnson, William Pitt, Frederic the Great and other notable figures are a joy to read in an age when vehement criticism has all but disappeared..
On many a dark day, Macaulay has been our single solace.
It is pleasant not to be despised in one’s own country.
- French writer Voltaire after the success of his play Zaïre
Source: Voltaire by Ian Davidson, p.85
But what is our country?
India? America?
Both? Neither?
Who can tell where the loyalties of a wanderer’s heart lie?
Not even the wanderer.
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What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS.
- Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president and general manager, Palm Global Business Unit, HP (June 9, 2011
On August 18, HP killed the webOS-based TouchPad after a horrible market reception to the tablet.
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I have long enough been the whore of the nobility. From now on I shall be the whore of the rabble.
- Griet Reyniers aka Grietje Reyniers, one of the first known hookers of modern America, some time in the 1630s.
Griet Reyniers, one of the little birds of the night, is said to have spoken those delectable words in a moment of despair after being cast out by her lover Wouter Van Twiller, governor of the new colony of Dutch Manhattan, in the 1630s.
Source: The Sunday New York Times, Metropolitan Section p.2, August 7, 2011
Today, Dutch Manhattan aka Manhattan is choc-a-bloc with hookers randis of all ethnicities displaying their wares, plying their trade and pandering to countless depravities and fetishes.
By the way, SearchIndia.com is a strong supporter of Randyism, our neologism meaning legalization of the sex trade.
The horror of every agony is in its anticipation.
- Anthony Trollope in The Way We Live Now, p.245
When you promise a lady you’re gonna marry her, shouldn’t you head for the altar even if ‘wild-cat’ she turns out to be?
For, after all, let a woman be ever so good, – and you to me are all that is good, – a man should not allow his love to dominate his intellect.
Source: Anthony Trollope in The Way We Live Now, p.121
Ha , ha, ha.
Easier said than done.
Since times immemorial, men in love have had their intellect, should they possess any, completely clouded in the feverish passion of their amour.
Men will willingly yield their patrimony, their kingdom and, sometimes, even their lives in the foolish pursuit of love.
It’s indeed a pity that life is not cricket. If it were, we’d not have seen the festering wounds of an ignorant war.
- Sri Lankan cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara, some 31-minutes into his 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on July 4, 2011
We’ve always known, and indeed written on the SI blog, that Kumar Sangakkara was not merely a fine cricket player but an extraordinarily eloquent one as well.
In his 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lords on July 4, Sangakkara showed what a fine wordsmith he is in a remarkable address on the subject Spirit of Sri Lankan Cricket.
Sangakkara delivered a scintillating summary of the story of Sri Lankan cricket deftly weaving the history of the game in the island nation with the country’s colonial history, politics, civil war, victory, defeat, corruption and political interference. Continue reading »
The disease of MSM (men having sex with men) is unnatural and not good for Indian society.
- Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
Source: Times of India
Listen, Gandu Nabi Azad, what’s your problem, what’s society’s problem with what a man does with another man in private.
Whether two men in the privacy of their homes blow each other or bugger each other, it’s their choice! It’s nobody’s business but theirs.
We just can’t understand these chutiyas interfering in the personal affairs of private citizens.
In any other civilized country but India, such a disgusting comment would have cost the minister Ghulam Nabi Azad his job but in Incredible India it’s business as usual.
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Poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions.
- Francis Fukuyama in The Origins of Political Order p.14
It’s hard to dispute the above point, at least in the case of India.
Despite the burgeoning population, India has plenty of resources. Certainly, enough to feed its 1.2 billion people.
Yet, millions of Indians, young and old, go to bed hungry every night, sleep under the stars, defecate in public and are prey to countless depredations.
Because India’s political institutions are weak and have been hijacked by the corrupt and the strong. Beneath the veneer of the democracy, it’s the law of the jungle that operates in many parts of India, particularly the hinterlands where little of the fruits of so-called development has reached the poor.
In India’s case, the weak governing institutions are compounded by the disassociation of the growing middle class from what is considered the “cesspool of politics.”
China may not be a democracy but its political institutions are strong and govern more effectively than the Indian state.
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