You were one of the prime reasons that my interest in international affairs got sparked and got the direction it needed… Your articles dazzled, informed and most importantly cut through bullshit… You have left the world bereft of another leading light… Goodbye, Fred… Open democracy’s tribute   del.icio.us Tags: Fred Halliday,death,tribute Share...

I took some time to write about Kanu Sanyal, one of the fathers of what is arguably the only genuine revolutionary insurrection in post-independence India. I took some time to write about his death not only because it was a suicide but also because writing about the death of a revolutionary means bringing in his life as well… Kanu Sanyal was found hanging in his house, at the same place that saw the break of the Spring Thunder in 1967....

Ah well…all good things must come to an end, especially if you don't want to own the good thing anymore!!! Bajaj will, from now on, manufacture only motorcycles, finally bowing to market tastes. With that decision, a product that signified India for decades will pass easily into history pages – the “Hamara Bajaj”, the Chetak. The scooter that was the beast of burden for the common man carrying whole families on...

  Michael Jackson, who became a legend in his lifetime and who perhaps was a pioneer of the modern music age, is in the danger of becoming a circus object in the coming days and years; much like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, people would be fascinated by this life of a star which burnt so brightly that it consumed itself all too soon… People don’t seem to know how they should react exactly to his death. He had become a subject of...

This post is a post of remembrance of the ten months in which I finished the Foundation series by Asimov; a ten months which I enjoyed immensely and in which i became a lifelong advocate of science-fiction stories. My flirtation with the foundation series began five years ago when foundation series was a part of G’s course. There was no Wikipedia but Google was enough to whet my appetite. But being perpetually broke, and each ...