There has been a lot of media space devoted to the recent remarks by Kushboo and Suhasini…
The level of intolerance exhibited by the few unruly demonstrators is appalling. Mr. Ramodoss and the PMK(and DPI etc etc) seem to have the gift of generating controversies out of nothing. The violent behavior on the streets is beyond [...]
Archive for November, 2005
Tamil Culture and all that…
Posted in Indian Politics, Media on November 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
At t
Posted in Math, Uncategorized on November 19, 2005 | 2 Comments »
A quote from the Russian mathematician V. I. Arnol’d:
It is almost impossible for me to read contemporary mathematicians who,
instead of saying “Petya washed his hands,” write simply: “There is a
such that the image of under the natural mapping
belongs to the set of dirty hands, and a
,
, such that the image of [...]
A rare interview by Neil Armstrong!
Posted in Science on November 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This Sunday, CBS carried Neil’s interview. Must be one of his very few TV appearences…
Here are a few excerpts
I just don’t deserve it [the attention for being the first man on the Moon] I wasn’t chosen to be first…I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. [...]
GMRT.. recent stuff.
Posted in Astronomy, Physics on November 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t a post explaining GMRT to everyone (like my SDSC post). I would love to do it.. but even a reasonable explanation will take a long time to compile. Here , I have just collected a few media reports reg GMRT:
I came across this article on TIFR and its outposts in the latest [...]
Keep it “breaking”….
Posted in Indian Politics on November 4, 2005 | 3 Comments »
It was raining and the reporter was drenched. He was literally gasping for breath…he had been there all day long,”Breaking” the news. ‘The Action’ had been absorbing and draining. The whole country was hooked on to this story..or so he thought. A little extra from the reporter would have made the whole thing sound like [...]
Follow the leader… China style
Posted in Media on November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
[via RSS@HarvardLaw]
We have seen NDTV’s follow the leader. But, there is an interesting version from China’s official Newspaper “People’s Daily” : RSS feeds for the top communist leaders… Get the feeds from here.
From Wikipedia entry for People’s Daily:
The People’s Daily is the chief mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party. In addition, editorials in [...]
The Scian Melt # 12
Posted in Science on November 1, 2005 | 12 Comments »
The ribbon on the right is to condole the death of innocent souls in the dastardly attacks at Delhi’s market places. Please blog about this crime… i hope we don’t need desipundit’s calls for “… Day” to even have a post.
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Now to the 12th edition of the Scian Melt.
Starting with math stuff, Anand of Locana [...]
