History is really a study of the future, not the past.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

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

As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.

Old. A viable die-able age.

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?