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Recently, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the question of quality and context in matters of art. Since I spend much of my time r...

"Four hours and 29 minutes is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest speech in front of the General Assembly, given in S...

Took an auto to come home last ight, like every other night. The auto driver started driving, then pulled over to the side and cursed beneat...

People forget. Easily. Newspapers, magazines, television crews forgot, until we have a dry news day and we begin to think of what was left u...

International literacy day came and went. And somebody out there did this. Don't know who holds copyright etc, but since it says 'ja...

And godowns on the moon . Great new blog. Go see . Go argue. Go smile.

Dear Reliance Our telephonic association goes back a long way. I don't even remember how long. You do have a reputation for not listenin...

Very often, there is a hollow inside you. Inside your head. Inside your day as it steadily chews its way from breakfast to lunch, when there...

A few days ago, I had complained about the telephone and internet services at Chicago airport. The telephone-walas at Pacific seem imperviou...

I am usually reluctant to mix my worlds, and have taken a few pains to keep my blogging world and my poetry worlds a little bit apart. But t...

It has been seven years since. Or eight. I don’t remember his name. Nor his number. He gave me both. He asked me for mine – name and number....

When I returned home, the first thing everyone in the family asked was: "So how does it feel to be back?" I answered with the trut...

Dear O'Hare, Chicago, Airport I have a grouse. Actually, I have many. I visited you recently and found that communications wise, you are...

Got this message from here . Please pass the word around and help in any way you can. "The high tidal waves on 24th July destructed sev...

Several things went on through the day at the BlogHer conference 09 . For me, the single most important event was that my laptop wouldn'...

Will be here . Those of you who can be there, well, be there, and those who cannot, read about it.

"Last year Karla Hoff , an economist at the World Bank who is currently working at Princeton University, and her colleagues reported th...

Facebook says I is a player's girl. That cocky so-and-sos and know-it-alls Just look at me and rise, as if to bait And I just looks at t...

Essentials of journalism: Get facts. Get opinions. Get counter-opinions. Question everything. Now here are (or what appear to be) the facts:...

"In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demo...