Archive for December, 2011

Australia v. India – Few thoughts from Day One of the First Test
December 26, 2011, No Comments

There seemed to be a great deal of surprise when Michael Clarke elected to bat having won the toss. The ‘experts’ sa ...

Part II: Sexuality and the Dirty Picture
December 22, 2011, 1 Comment

[Zoheb Hossain follows on from his earlier post on Sexuality and the Dirty Picture, in this concluding part] The Alpha M ...

Environment Critical Digest: 19.12.11
December 20, 2011, No Comments

1. Jayanthi Natarajan at Durban Do you care about the grandchildren of the Indian representative at the latest climate ...

Open Letter to Sharad Pawar: Kindly Acknowledge, Minister
December 20, 2011, 8 Comments

[A guest post by Agrima Bhasin, a graduate student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Agri ...

Science Critical Digest: 19.12.11
December 19, 2011, No Comments

1.  A research group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has published a paper in Science, where they describe ...

India’s ‘Insecure’ Food Bill: Hurting the Poor
December 19, 2011, 1 Comment

The Congress-party led Indian government is attempting to push a Food Security Bill through Parliament in a hurry. This ...

Politics Critical Digest: 19.12.11
December 18, 2011, No Comments

For the majority of Indian newspapers and news channels, the rest of the world, apart from India, is scarcely newsworthy ...

Sport Critical Digest 18.12.11
December 18, 2011, No Comments

1. Dravid delivers a straight batted speech: Rahul Dravid became the first Indian to deliver the Sir Donald Bradman Orat ...

Movies Critical Digest 19.12.11
December 18, 2011, No Comments

1. By now, everybody knows that George Lucas isn’t the great visionary who gave us Star Wars. Now if only he’ ...

Law Critical Digest: 19.12.2011
December 18, 2011, No Comments

1. The results of the Advocates on Record examination held this year were released some time back and 71 out of about 40 ...