Facebook, Twitter misusing their power

 I’d support any measure, including censorship, to stop platforms like Facebook and Twitter from being used to spread terror

Pankaj Mishra on Buddha

"He struck me as a very profound thinker, perhaps the greatest the subcontinent has produced, someone who stood well out of the mainstream of classical Indian thought, and was also astonishingly modern in his diagnosis of the human condition. He was particularly trenchant about the concept of the self-directed, self-seeking autonomous individual — something that in our own era has been the basis of social and political and economic models that we associate with Western modernity and which have now been exported across the world."

Chetan Bhagat, the great 'unthinker'!

Bhagat is not a thinker. He is our great ‘unthinker’, as sure a representative of heedless ‘new India’ as the khadi-clad politician is of old India

Idea of Power!

" I put an individual in a seat of honour. But he has no idea of his powers. He is acting as if he is the PM or the President. Those working in various commissions are misusing funds to buy vehicles and property."
- Mamata Banerjee as in a report published in the Hindustan Times dated August 15, 2012.

You -like -me - and I-like-you culture

Twitter and Tumblr form the superstructure of today’s literary world.