In Defense of the Status Quo

While India’s parliamentarians were busy brokering power deals, managing defections and alliances, arranging, accepting and reporting bribes supposedly over the nuclear deal, The Times of India was busy defending the status quo with articles like this and this.
From the first article (titled “For India’s Future”)
“…a superficial look at news headlines conveys the impression that the [...]

Nuclear Deal

Here is a hilarious post on the nuclear deal that makes the point that “common people” have no clue of what the whole nuclear issue is all about.
And that is as it should be. Issues such as “energy security”, the extent of availability, nature and feasibility of various energy sources cannot properly be the concern of “common people”, [...]

Balancing Rights

In a blog post about pre-marital HIV testing, Sakshi Juneja writes,
“The question of pre-marital HIV testing has been debated in media and on blogs. We are still searching for a balance between:
A) A nation’s effort in curbing a dreaded disease
B) Freeing the society of its prejudices/taboos
C) An individual’s right to protect what is ultimately a [...]

Found this on Professionalism

“Professionalism is not about adherance to the policies of a bureaucracy. Professionalism is about having the integrity, honesty, and sincere regard for the personhood of the customer, in the context of always doing what is best for the business. Those two things do not need to be in conflict.”
I found this in a reply to a comment [...]