Rationalist shot dead in India

If superstition could kill, it killed a voice of reason.

Good Job, Bezos. Thank you.

"We don't know if Bezos bought the Post as an act of altruism or business genius, or something in between. What we do know is that, at Amazon, he learned, and taught, the right lessons. “The three big ideas at Amazon are long-term thinking, customer obsession, and willingness to invent,” Bezos said recently. Precisely the ones the news industry now needs."

India's First Green Referendum

India has just witnessed a unique event - its first green referendum in which people had to vote for or against a mining project. The results are out though the process of referendum has not yet concluded. A majority of people have already voted against the project. Unlike parliamentary or assembly elections, this referendum is an open process. Out of 12 'constituencies' that are part of this unprecedented exercise, eight have said no to the project with an overwhelming majority. So the result of the referendum in the rest four does not matt

Presidency University offers a course on LOVE

Come New Year, students at the Presidency University in Kolkata can opt for a course on the enigma of love, its vice-chancellor said on Sunday, adding that this was part of the new interdisciplinary studies programme.

Can the Nobel Prize committee give it to Manning and Snowden?

You can’t precisely compare conditions in America and China, and I’m not saying that the widespread surveillance and secrecy that Manning and Snowden have exposed in the U.S., as frightening as it is, is the same as the forceful suppression of dissent and civil liberties in China. Or at least not yet. But the Nobel committee now has an opportunity to declare its independence, balance the scales a little on its most lamentable decisions, and make clear to Americans and the whole world that China isn’t the only superpower to go down the dark and dangerous road toward tyranny.