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Politics and future
“When politics decides your future, decide what your politics must be.” via Tehelka
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Cost of environment
Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday blamed Congress leader and union minister Jairam Ramesh as being “singularly responsible for shaving off 2.5% of the GDP” by not giving environmental...
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Something to Hide
You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet. via Wired
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In defense of digital freedom
We need to defend democratic principles not only against outside attacks, but also against erosion from within. The strength of an open society is tested especially when it comes under (perceived)...
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Time Lapse Film Using Scanner
In this post we will see how to make a time-lapse animation of something which changes over time, with a scanner. Most probably you have seen some amazing time -lapse photography of different objects....
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After Nehru…
Longish quotes from London Review of Books from After Nehru by Perry Anderson To be impressive, however, is not to be miraculous, as Indians and others still regularly describe the political system...
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Known knowns, Unknown unknowns
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that...
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Batch Converting jp2 to jpg
I do not know why but jp2 files are very very heavy on GNU/Linux systems. Opening a folder full of them might very likely stall your file browser or system. Even a small file below 1 M, might take its...
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Dissent Is Treason
The year Nineteen Eighty Four is long past us, in fact next year it will exactly 30 years in the past. But if we consider the dystopic vision of George Orwell from the novel, seems with each passing...
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Round Earth: The Proofs
What is the evidence for a round Earth? In this post, we explore some of the evidence for proving that the Earth is indeed spherical in shape (if not a perfect one), and not a flat one. Though in the...
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