Category: Reviews
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the nehrus and the gandhis – review
An unexpectedly riveting book giving a much better account of post-independence India than I have been able to gather from most other sources. He tries to separate the “legend” behind Nehru and Indira from the people they were. Good supplementary reading to India after Gandhi by Guha, which sorta seemed to completely neglect these people’s personal lives.
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Review – The Shock Doctrine
A powerful narrative on how US-style neo-liberal thinking is much more than a mere political ideology. The author indicates (through thorough analysis of documents and events in history) that an agenda to dismantle ‘states’ to safeguard “potential harm” to future US interests was pursued by several US administration. A decent understanding of economics and world…
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Aint no pedia like Wikipedia
Bureaucracy was expected Morozov brings up the valid argument that bureaucracy is choking the cyclopaedia. No large institution was ever run as in a fly-by-wire manner in which small NGOs or garage-based companies are run. Bureaucracy is an expected consequence of such a mass collaboration….
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Diclofenac and Vulture deaths – From naivity to reality
Diclofenac is one of the most commonly used Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. Just to give you an idea of the magnitude, I take the human example. Although, I really dont know to what extend ‘human diclo cycle’ touches birds, as an example, it would be good. There are about 1600 odd government health centres in Karnataka –…
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Indian Contributions to Science
Based on an early draft I wrote for an article on wikipedia “The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator’s hand. “ – George Bernard Shaw,…