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We don’t need no Unique I.D
December 19, 2010, 23 Comments

Nandan Nilekani’s Unique Identification Scheme bothers me. Isn’t it interesting how modernity has meant the use of � ...

Return of the Trequartista
October 28, 2010, 4 Comments

More than two years back, I had written on the death of the trequartista – the conventional number 10 who looks to ope ...

Odd Passages in the Vedas and what they might mean – I
September 13, 2010, 6 Comments

I have always been struck by one gnawing feeling whenever I read the Vedas and the Upanishads. That some of the passages ...

Zero: A philosophical history of an Indian Idea – II
August 27, 2010, 35 Comments

 The Men Who Knew Infinity  Zero and infinity are curious beasts; they defy our logical understanding of the world. Tr ...