Comments for It's a Miracle!

Comment on Time machine by Opinionated Indian

Opinionated Indian — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:23:20 +0000

Brilliant writing. I can relate to what you’ve written for I’ve moved to a different country altogether. I hope to move back there in few years.

Thanks for the post.

Comment on Shelf-space by Aniruddha Sen

Aniruddha Sen — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:08:00 +0000

Very well put across.
I had a similar problem in my heyday. So long as I continued to toe the corporate line, space took care of itself at the drop of a hat, for, without realising the circumstances, I was being kicked upstairs, with more commodious accommodations till…….
Had to pack 90% of my books in ploy-lined wooden crates and leave the lot in my ageing/ ailing mother’s house.
Had to burn the entire lot, tearfully, four years later, for the more active bookworms got the better of the entire lot.
I made a habit of filing many books away between my rabbit ears.

Comment on Shelf-space by Anirban

Anirban — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:57:55 +0000

You are too kind.

Comment on Shelf-space by daddysan

daddysan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:26:34 +0000

Jealous. Not just of your collection of books but your passion for them.

Comment on The long continuum by Anirban

Anirban — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:58:19 +0000

Thanks for reading, daddy_san.

Comment on The long continuum by daddysan

daddysan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:25:33 +0000

Very well articulated!

My fear isn’t melding into machine-think. It’s the reverse. Perhaps because I still have faith in the human ability to transcend banal rules when confronted with events of emotional significance incomprehensible to machines.

Comment on Subramanian Swamy, Free Speech at Harvard, and the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States by skmahanth

skmahanth — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:44:35 +0000

Then ask harvard to pay taxes. Once it is a not for profit institution the law changes, constitution and government can interfere. The only thing is harvard has 40 billion dollar in its chest, political clout and get 40 million dollars from saudi arabia, which has excellent human rights records.

Comment on Subramanian Swamy, Free Speech at Harvard, and the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States by skmahanth

skmahanth — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:27:44 +0000

This is a ridiculous peice trying to defend the nuts of harvard. The harvard cannot extend its premises to India. It is one thing if swamy wrote on crimson, but to strech the campus to India is definite violation of freedom of speech. Swamy wrote this article as politician of India. Harvard laws are clear that non tenure faculty can do part time professions and do not need harvard permission. Swamy did not use harvard in the article. The article was written in response to god damn terrorist performing jihadis. On the other hand same nuts of harvard have advocated for tariq ramadana who has called for jihad in afghan, kashmir etc. Please do proper research before writng british raj style articles.The economic faculty did not have objection.Only 51% of faculty attended the meeting, swamy was not given a chance to present, 3/4 of them did not have any clue

Comment on The long continuum by Sukanya C

Sukanya C — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:34:32 +0000

An unrelated note – You hv left your post sans the post beneath … and seen the comments fly in thick and fast! Maybe some months later you can try it….I once had a similar experience in art gallery where a young chap took a dustbin full of khullars to be the work of art (which incidentally – the ‘art’ was hanging on an ajoining wall)!!

Comment on 115 words by Anirban

Anirban — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:43:32 +0000

Thanks, Ketan. The first line I wrote was the last one. I was lying in bed thinking about the “density” of memories. I could probably pack up all my memories into a box much smaller than my entire life.