The idea of a women-only IIT sounds absurd and retrograde.
The suggestion to start India’s first all-women IIT at Amravati near Nagpur in Vidarbha had in fact been mooted by Saint Gadgebaba University vice-chancellor Kamal Singh. Patil followed it up when she became the country’s first woman president last July.
‘A recommendatory note from the president’s office [...]
(Too lazy to try to work the title into a sentence this time; but more absurdity from the US elections, this time involving the Democrats).
In an attempt to sway voters in the Ohio primary, Hillary Clinton attempts to potray herself in the role of an underpaid, over-worked blue-collared worker.
In her remarks in Youngstown on Tuesday [...]
But certain Americans want a President whose wife (or husband) is patriotically proud of her country . These sections of the American voters are working themselves into an apoplectic tizzy over this statement by Michelle Obama, wife of Presendential contender, Barack:
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country [...]
But Americans are likely to vote for a Presedential candidate who does not believe in using condoms to protection against AIDS, or to be generous, is totally clueless about the issues of contraceptives, sexual health etc [1]:
Reporter: “Should U.S. taxpayer money go to places like Africa to fund contraception to prevent AIDS?”
Mr. McCain: “Well I [...]
…but America could (theoretically) get a President who depends on miracles to solve problems.
“Well I didn’t major in math, I majored in miracles. And I still believe in those, too.” (link)
Mike Huckabee, nominee for the Republican presendential candidate for the ‘08 elections, about his chances to win that nomination. For those who aren’t following, [...]
…but a good looking President. Thats what Rush Limbaugh wants the United States of America to elect next year.
But according to the US’s leading radio shock jock, Rush Limbaugh, it all matters little for the male presidential candidates, because when men age they look “more authoritative, accomplished and distinguished”.
What does matter, says Limbaugh, is that [...]
This is going to be all over the blogosphere quite soon; ending months of speculation, yet another comedian is running for the US Presidency and he is dead serious about it. Stephen Colbert - running both as a Democrat and a Republican (so that he can lose twice!).
On the other side of the globe, I had almost forgotten the significance of the date. I find what I wrote last year still quite relevant:
Undeniably, that day changed the course of current politics: while terrorism in its modern form had struck around the globe ever since World War II - Ireland, Spain, France, United [...]
There are occasional blog-posts or MSM articles that we professional ranters bloggers find fault with or get irked by, and therefore fisk. Then there are stuff like this Indian Express editorial by Kumar Ketkar that are beyond inane and deserve our pity rather than scorn. Ketkar tries to somehow argue on the basis of [...]
I believe in individual rights. But, how do you balance individual rights versus public good ? The usual libertarian line is that you are free to do anything you like as long as you are not harming or affecting anyone else. Of course, in the real world most issues are murky. One such example [...]
Who knew that digging around a mundane document like the Govt of India’s Union Budget for 2007-08 would reveal such nuggets of gold !
Example 1: Turns out, there is something called the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (even comes with the snappy acronym, AYUSH) within the Ministry of Health [...]
Dinesh D’souza is a right-wing extremist nut-case and (therefore?) a self-proclaimed intellectual, who has gone to town with a ridiculous assetion that the so-called ‘cultural left’ in America (e.g Hollywood, gay people etc) was actually responsible for 9/11. His main motive, of course, is to sell a book.
His delusional rambling have received well-deserved smackdowns [...]
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