Indian Marxists guilty of murder

Tapasi Mallick's killers(rapists?) are convicted. Want to see how much this news will be covered by our media. I never had any hope of proper investigation or justice in this case when i learned about it before. And our great media network never reported any progress either(even though they were hyperactive in reporting about whether tata's will move out or stay in singur).

66th rank

Read the news. Key findings here.

  Our media has better news items to run on their front page, so you might have missed this. TOI wanted to talk about companies going cheap on diwali gifts this year. I searched IE to find a mention with no luck. Funny bit was the mention in cnn-ibn. They reported the news in the context of nano project moving to gujarat.



 

  
 

UN hand-washing day

  Millions mark UN hand-washing day and i suddenly thought it would be about rwandan genocide.

Food crisis because indians and chinese are getting food to eat

According to condolezza rice the more important reasons of food crisis that should be investigated is the improvement in the diets of indians and chinese(really, or is it that more indians and chinese get to eat these days) . A less important factor would be USA and many other countries using food crops to create biofuel. More people getting food to eat is a good thing(and who would have thought we will have to defend such a statement). What needs to be stopped is the new universal policy of promoting conversion of food into biofuels and planting fuel worthy plants like jatropha in arable lands which produced food grains otherwise.

From this news article. Also read about food vs fuel on wikipedia.

Seen in all its grim realities, old Tibet confirms the view I expressed in an earlier book, namely that culture is anything but neutral. Culture can operate as a legitimating cover for a host of grave injustices, benefiting a privileged portion of society at great cost to the rest. In theocratic feudal Tibet, ruling interests manipulated the traditional culture to fortify their own wealth and power. The theocracy equated rebellious thought and action with satanic influence. It propagated the general presumption of landlord superiority and peasant unworthiness. The rich were represented as deserving their good life, and the lowly poor as deserving their mean existence, all codified in teachings about the karmic residue of virtue and vice accumulated from past lives, presented as part of God’s will.
- from the essay about Tibet by Michael Parenti. Go read.

fleeting moment

the cheers gang up on the dreamy ears
dreams race to the escape the eminent dawn
i race to get a hold on her
for the glint is in her eyes
and shes moving away at human pace
my feet are stuck to the earth

the glint shines like a silver dagger
which could cut my heart and let love in
bring light to the alley way ahead
which was pitch dark otherwise
the feet were moving then with no unease

i saw the look in her eyes
there was love but with no pain
there was recognition but no anger
lust with no covers, happiness
i wish i could move my feet, and walk with her