The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.