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The third flight path out of the Lokpal imbroglio

Vishy KurugantiAugust 15, 20117 mins

Aruna Roy (Founder - MKSS, NCPRI and National Advisory Council member) - Pic courtesy thehindu.com This Saturday as I drove to the grocery store to pick up my wife and kids, I was pleasantly surprised…

Why is fasting illegitimate when Mahatma Gandhi used it in our struggle for independence from the British?

Vishy KurugantiAugust 14, 20111 mins

Nitin Pai (Founder & Fellow for geopolitics, Takshashila Institution) Nitin Pai of The Acorn has answered this very well on his FAQ post today. Excerpted below is his response: There is a huge…

A sentence from Samuel Johnson’s The Life of Savage

Vishy KurugantiAugust 13, 20111 mins

I’ve been reading Francine Prose’s Reading like a Writer recently. The subtitle of the book, A guide for people who love books and those who want to write them, gives an indication about why it’s not…

Shoshee Chunder Dutt on Patriotism

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20111 mins

Heard ye that lofty pealing sound ⁠Upon the balmy air, The exulting shout that best proclaims ⁠The deeds which heroes dare? In triumph blow their trumpets proud, ⁠The clouds repeat their voice; Go…

The sandwiched generation. The best generation!

Vishy KurugantiJune 06, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: The author of this post, Rajat Mukherjee, lives in Silicon Valley and works for Google. This post originally appeared on his Silicon Thoughts blog and is reproduced here with his…

Corbett’s Law of the Jungle

Vishy KurugantiMay 24, 20111 mins

The following excerpt i from Jim Corbett’s My India – story #5 (Law of the Jungles). Two-year old Putali and three-year old Punwa were lost at midday on Friday, and were found by the herdsman at about…

Boiling the social enterprise ocean

Vishy KurugantiMay 20, 20112 mins

[Editor’s Note: A few months ago, I started a new blog (Techsangam.com) focusing on social enterprises in India. This post was published on TechSangam a few days ago and am reposting it here to…

Swami Vivekananda on entrepreneurship and focus

Vishy KurugantiApril 14, 20111 mins

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other…

The curious and unexpected affair of Anna the Hazare

Vishy KurugantiApril 12, 20118 mins

Anna Hazare (Pic: courtesy justascrap.com) I’ve sometimes found it useful to resist the urge to blog immediately in the aftermath of a major event that I care about. The advantage with waiting is that…

R.K.Narayan’s Coffee Worries

Vishy KurugantiMarch 16, 20114 mins

South Indian filter coffe (Pic: courtesy saffrontrail.blogspot.com) Every now and then, one reads an article, a book or prose and it’s not sufficient merely to shout from the ramparts “Buy/borrow the…

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