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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

iTunes and A.R.Rahman; iPad and Ayn Rand:Lesson's in Capitalism

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Growing up in Tanjore in the 80's and early 90's one of the pastimes in our family was to procure cassettes (yes, those tapes) of Ta...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Steve Jobs: Posterboy for Capitalism, Ayn Rand and Genius

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In early 1980 Gorbachev's deputy showed him an Apple computer and said "Look, this is a revolution' (David Hoffman's Puli...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

9/11 And The Vietnam Albtaross: The story of George Coker

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America's engagement in Vietnam is a sordid saga of venality and war crimes. It was an age and time that makes current partisan discord ...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Road to 9/11: Harold Pinter's Anti-Americanism

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On September 11th 2001 while America mourned several parts of the world mourned and in the same breath muttered "you had it coming...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Ralph Nader, Upton Sinclair and Vasantha Balan

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I am often asked what is it about USA that thrills me so much. The questions and wonderment get sharper in response to my carping about Ind...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Road to 9/11: Hamburg and the Patriot Act

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As I wrote  earlier  9-11 was just a murderous attack by fundamentalists and their supposed causes were nothing but fig leaves to disguise ...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Born-Einstein Letters: Physics and Friendship in Uncertain Times

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S.Ramakrishnan, noted contemporary writer in Tamil Nadu, visited a book fair and listed the books he had bought. "Born-Einstein Lette...