Ink Scrawl

Johann Hari responds to the riots,   outcry, and the hysteria in Kolkata around his earlier article:   Stand up for the Right to Critic...

This guardian of Indian Culture is planning to file defamation cases against the senders of "panties parcel." Earlier posts:  A 1...

This February 14th, I had said earlier , is going to be one interesting Valentine's Day. In response to The Pink Chaddi Campaign ,...

If you have a pink chaddi (or are willing to buy one), take part in The Pink Chaddi Campaign and send it on to the Sri Ram Sena. If you don...

The Earth could be more than 6 degrees celsius hotter than it is today within another century. Just how bad is this for us? Mark Lynas exam...

Sweet Jesus ! It would have been a career killer.

George Monbiot contends biofuel is worse for the planet than petroleum.

Some hardline Muslim clerics in Australia are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax c...

If discussions in Mumbai's local trains are a barometer of what's recently in the public mindspace, the behavior of the Australian ...

A small time Bollywood actor, Naeem Khan, has petitoned a city court seeking a ban on Hindi film Omkara for its vulgar dialogues "whi...

According to this rediff report, Amitabh Singhal, a spokesperson of the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI), has said t...

Just came across this on The Hindustan Times: "Officials" have this to say in defense of the decision to block blogs: We would lik...

At least the blogspot ones are. And the ones hosted on geocities and typepad as well. Soon it might be the turn of other blog hosts too. And...

The Information & Broadcasting Ministry has temporarily halted the release of The Da Vinci Code. Meanwhile, the government of Goa, havi...