Orhan Pamuk fined for uttering a historical truth

“Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands, and nobody but me dares to talk about it.” so said Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning author in 2005.

Now a Turkish Court orders him to pay 6,000 liras (about 4,000 USD) to six individuals—1,000 liras each—in compensation for insulting their “Turkishness”.

Indian business dynasties are robber barons

Indian business dynasties are “robber barons”.

Manmohon Singh is no chump

He may be a straightforward guy, but he is no chump.

In terms of information

The history of humanity can be told in terms of wars, in terms of kings, of money — you can look at it from lots of different perspectives — but I believe that the perspective that’s most useful is in terms of information, and of changes in the way people communicate with one another. That’s what transforms human societies more profoundly than anything else.

Do you still think Manmohon Singh is an honest person?

"All this talk about the honest PM falls flat in the wake of Thomas’s appointment. India deserves better.”