Category Archives: Free Speech
I must be a diclofenac vulture
Diclofenac has been banned in the India? Diclofenac is used mostly for anti-inflammatory purposes by vets? This is news to me. Surprising, since all this is in the Hindu, which is an Indian newspaper. The reason my friends, that I am taking five times as long to type out this post is the fact that [...]
India, Pakistan, and differences – hypothesis
I have been absent from this blog for quite some days related with my own learning journey. Been thinking a lot about all these India-Pakistan thingies. For all people of the two countries, there is a perspective i’d like to share: Identity: Pakistan seems to still be in teenage rebellion mode when it comes to [...]
Terror! …… extreme grief
What do I write? I am stunned. Mumbai is stunned. Statistics are all over the news and on the net, and frankly, I’m incapable of talking numbers in the face of what I am feeling. Mumbai, my beloved city is being bullied. There is no other word for it. A bunch of random outsiders have [...]
Anti-smoking propoganda – smokers have no rights
I’d written about people pestering smokers, now its the government doing it. There’s a whole list of “public places” that people can’t smoke in, in Mumbai. Apparently, some people are more equal than others. If you don’t want to inhale smoke, you don’t even need to move away a little anymore. The government takes care [...]
Right to free speech and ePerks
I came across this bizarre (yeah, that’s my favourite word) situation with poor Vlad, who like many of us here is a blogger writing about his interests and writing paid posts as opportunities arise. Now, this situation seems to have a lot of angles to it, but from what I basically understand…. This Vlad accepts to [...]