just finished reading Prabhat Patnaik's Retreat to Unfreedom and Other Essays...one of the most satisfied reading that i have done in quite some time....the essays are not just powerful in terms of the arguments he puts forth convincingly but also in the simplicity of language used to convey a complex point....

if i ever go to JNU...i swear i will swoon...hahaha...nah...but promise not to behave like Patnaik either (remember Priti 'Jhinta' Patnaik aka 'gundu' of ACJ fame who spoke with Prabhat Patnaik for about ten minutes and did not recognise him even after he introduced himself to her at the WSF?)

will someone please tell the Congress that the Mahatma didn't wear glares through the searing dust and heat of the Dandi march? coz the front page of the Times carries a pic of a Mahatma lookalike commomerating the 75th year of the Dandi March with glares and a sizeable paunch...