As always, a good communist is a dead communist. The entire country needs to be cleansed from the Maoists who have unleashed the reign of terror in these regions for decades under the intellectual cover provided by their ideological brethren in academia and media.

Left has spent enormous intellectual effort over years in turning a real estate issue into a moral crusade that there is no dearth of such specimens who feel obligated to speak on it. As Bernard Lewis said, "The arabs are in truth nothing more than a stick for beating the Jews."

The only thing worse than civilian bureaucracy is military bureaucracy. They make Sir Humphrey Appleby look like an angel.

Whenever someone explains a human error or an act of incompetence by attributing it to a grand strategy, I'm always reminded of what Arthur Koestler wrote about such claims.

There is a terrible trend that many Indian commentators have picked up recently – the assumption that every person out there has an enmity with Indians. It's simply an expression of frustration after losing. Nothing beyond it.

What happened subsequently was quite unfortunate. When Born appeared before the appointment committee of IISc, his qualification was questioned and mocked. He ended up joining Univ of Edinburgh while Raman and Born became each other's intellectual enemy in 1940s.

One should be living in their own bubble to assign greater value to a random Reddit post than quotidien reality. Such kind of supplies are almost a norm in significant numbers of Indian corporate offices and people don't do anything similar. Maybe, have better colleagues.

Never ever in the history the bourgeoisie had such listless, absurd, kitsch and ugly taste in reading as we currently witness. They make fun of what they studied in their school syllabus, but end up picking books written by far inferior authors as they grow up.

If one side has the razor sharp focus on destroying the very existence of my religion, it's perfectly valid to criticise the practices of such a religion. Such a surface-level commonality doesn't have any relevance in this context.

Jeff may not have nukes but there are eight bars of enriched uranium (each weighing 200g) that are most likely owned by certain Italian mafias smuggled out of Congo. In 1998, Italian police set up a trap and posed as Arab buyers but failed. Nobody currently knows who owns it.

It's not often when you cover three UNESCO world heritage sites in a single trip – Sydney Opera House, Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest (part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland).