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Regaining DaliI am very much affected by Salvatore Dali, his art and his life. I am very much interested in the period he worked in which also involved the years of Surrealism. There is a second painter I like and that is Frida Kahlo, and by her association Diego Rivera, her husband. With them you have Andre Breton, and the people who were influential in the era, including Leon Trotsky.
I work in mixed media in a Dali-esque style, and this afternoon I was invited to take a couple of my paintings to an agent in the fifth arrondissement here in Lyon. She is interested in finding new art in the city that will challenge opinion, and she has kept two pieces of mine to consider.
I think she liked me because I challenge. I have mentioned I don't often wear skirts and dresses, and jeans as my outerwear I like my boyshorts, with stockings and leg warmers, a bras (sometimes) and a jacket or a shirt or sweater. No, I don't wear anything under my boyshorts, they are just the same as those you may wear as underwear.
Just before going to the interview appointment I opted to change from my mesh electric blue boyshorts to a nude coloured tight but not translucent boyshort. The walk to her office was only a half hour each way, and I was there just twenty minutes, showing my two pieces and telling her a little about me. I should hear more within the next week or so.
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How to hide a folder in the phone.
Want to hide files or folders and your data on the phone let me see guns in / in person who tinkers ama friend? The following trick can be applied in mobile phone nokia, samsung, motorola, Lg, or all of the brand, which is important support Java applications in which almost all the brands certainly supports Java applications.
So, if the phone / mobile you support Java applications, the following tips and tricks to hide files and folders in the phone nokia, without requiring any sofwer !:
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- Rename the folder to be hidden folder with the extension .jad (So suppose we will hide the folder named Photos become Foto.jad)
- Now create a new folder didirektory same file extension .jar (so renamed Foto.jar)
- Now pay attention, the folder named Foto.jad been hidden! while an empty folder (Foto.jar) remains plasticity with empty contents. so our data is safe from rogue eyesight.
Now we already know the tricks hide files / photos of us on the phone. then how to do to display it again the original? Good question, langkah2nya:
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I can't figure this out for the life of me. I'm having this weird problem when the browser size is smaller than the min-width of my site.... the header and footer get cut off. The black should expand across the entire page (screenshot attached).
This is on my portfolio.
I've tried to add width:100% on different elements and tried several different overflow options to no avail. I have no idea why this is happening.
Here's the CSS that should be directly related to this:
#container {position:relative; min-height:100%;}
#header, #nav, #content, #footer {width:100%;}
#header p, #nav ul, #inner, #footer div {max-width:1100px; min-width:900px; margin:0 auto; padding:0 25px;}
#header, #footer {background-color:#000;}
#header {height:3.75em; line-height:4.5em;}
#header p a {font-size:3.875em; color:#fff; text-decoration:none; padding-right:15px;}
#header p a:hover {font-size:3.875em; color:#ccc;}
#header p span {font-size:1.25em; color:#fff; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:.125em;}
Any help is much appreciated.Thanks a lot!
Hi,You just need to move your min/max widths to the parent elements and not the children.
You have all your min/max widths on the child elements currently, beware of using side paddings along with 100% width also.
#header p, #nav ul, #inner, #footer div {max-width:1100px; min-width:900px; margin:0 auto; padding:0 25px;}
This should be all you need to do
#header, #nav, #content, #footer {
margin:0 auto;
That width 100% above is not really needed but in this case it is setting haslayout on IE6. You might consider chnaging it to 1000px and then you could set your side paddings back on there and keep IE6 working with a compromise.
Remove the absolute positioning from the footer to center it up
#footer {position:absolute; bottom:0; height:1.25em; padding:3px 0;}
It would really be best to set up a main wrapping div for the entire page and then just set your min/max widths there once.
Okay I see that you do have a main wrapping div called #container and I see that you are trying to do a sticky footer by using absolute positioning on the footer.
The AP sticky footer will not work with IE7. Have a look through the FAQ for instructions on how to set up a X-Browser sticky footer.
FAQ : How do you put a sticky footer at the bottom of the window?
Now, if you want the header and footer to stretch to the full width of the viewport while the rest of the page stays centered with min/max widths you could do something like this.
Then you would just set your min/max widths on the container.
[B]#container[/B] {
margin:0 auto;
padding:0 25px;
You're awesome! This is the third forum I've posted this to and you're the only person that came up with an answer that works. Using a combination of your provided solutions, I was able to get it working properly.
I haven't been able to test on different screen resolutions/sizes or browsers yet, so I'm sure there are a few minor tweaks needed, but right now it seems to be working great.
Thanks a lot!
Hi,You got it close but it is not quite working like you think it is. If you cut that slider div out of the html you will see that the sticky footer is not working.
1) The IE6 min-height hack is not targeting your content div, it is set as #wrapper2) You have misspelled content on your psuedo :after rules3) You have added top and bottom padding to the min-height:100%, the paddings should go in the contentInner4) The content div needs to get haslayout set on it for IE6/7
* html #wrapper{height:100%;} /* is "min-height" in IE6 */
#conent:after, #contentInner:after {...}
#content {clear:both; padding:25px; min-height:100%;}
#contentInner {width:auto;}
Look through the source code a little more closely of the example page I posted above.
My example calls the min-height:100% div #wrapper and the inner div #content, you will see that I put the top and bottom padding on that inner #content div
You have #content as your min-height:100% div and #contentInner as the inner div. Set your padding (and haslayout) on that inner div. It will take more than 25px padding to cater to your header and footer.
There are two different ways to bring the footer back into the viewport after the main wrapper gets min-height:100%. You should become acquainted with both methods and have a full grasp on the bare bones code before adding your additional divs to it.
Sticky Footer with top border soak-up
Sticky Footer with negative top margin on footer
Those examples do not have the IE8 & Opera fixes in place yet for the sake of showing the bare bones approach to the different methods.
Wow, man. You're good.I'm bad at the cross browser fixes (hasLayout, etc). I have to learn that.
I thought this would be MUCH easier to accomplish than it is.How do you analyze and test your css when starts getting more complex and confusing? I start to lose my mind when I'm going through this trying to figure out what's wrong...
How do you analyze and test your css when starts getting more complex and confusing?
I start to lose my mind when I'm going through this trying to figure out what's wrong...
It is best to test your pages in all major browsers while your building them. Each time you add a new element that is positioned somehow (either with floats or positioning) you should check and see that all browsers are still in agreement with what you just did. You will be able to see what the problem is as it happened rather than trying to figure it out at the end.
Once you understand the bugs that are present in various browsers you will know what each browsers needs while you (not dreamweaver) are writing the code. You will get to the point where you don't have to test as frequently.
It just comes with experience as with any other trade or profession.
That's A LOT of testing... but I know what you mean. You have to learn somehow.Hopefully I'll be that good one day. It's only been a couple years for me, but I feel like I should have this down better by now.
Anyway, thanks so much for the help. I still have some testing/tweaking to do, but it's a lot better than it was. I really appreciate it.


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Glad that the Caribbean Series Growing. Maybe Nicaragua or Colombia be next.
Interesting, this has been rumored for some time, but the Caribbean Confederation hasn't tweeted anything themselves. He is some back story: The CBPC President, Juan Francisco Puello was not happy when the leagues from Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama & Veracruz, Mexico joined forces and created the ALBP then formed their own event in 2013; the Serie Latinoamericana. He took this as a direct challenge to the CBPC and considered it Colombia's and Nicaragua's resignation; as they were passive members, meaning they paid dues, but had very little to show for it. ALBP President, Ajax Delgado has said that if one ALBP member joins Caribbean Series that all of them must go too. About a year and half ago the ALBP have also announced that Curacau will be joining them.
What is surprising to me is that Panama's Probeis has some of the most atrocious attendance and lack of media support; and yet Puello wants them to join the Caribbean Series? There have been rumors that MLB wants the Caribbean Series to expand, but nothing official. Colombia demonstrated that their best could play competitively in the WBC and Nicaragua has sustained its professional league (LBPN) for many years, but the Veracruz League encountered some issues this past winter, and the Curacau Winter League can't seem to get off the ground. I don't think any of those league are ready to compete, but it would be better if the Serie Latinoamericana could be a qualifier for the Caribbean Series.
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Some researchers say it is reasonable to use data from high doses to calculate the risk of smaller and smaller doses. They argue that any exposure to radiation raises the risk of cancer, though probably by only a small amount in the case of small doses.
But others say that estimating risk for doses near zero is nonsensical, and some believe there is a threshold dose, or limit below which there is no risk from exposure.
Dr. John Boice, for example, a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University who studies radiation effects in humans, warns that risk calculations based on tiny doses are themselves risky.
He argues that there is little data on doses below about 10 rem, but that some risk estimates nonetheless go down to a tenth of a rem or less. (He is also the scientific director of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Md., a private group that studies radiation with grants from government and industry.)
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But Dr. David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University, is among those who believe there is no threshold. Radiation damages DNA, he says, and just one damaged cell can become the seed of a cancer, though it takes decades to develop. He is studying the possibility that in terms of causing cancer, low doses of radiation might be more dangerous than calculations based on high doses would predict.
Current estimates by government agencies for risks from low doses rely on extrapolation from higher doses. In the United States, most government agencies use a unit called the rem to measure radiation doses. (Europe and Asia use the unit millisievert, which equals 0.1 rem.) According to the Environmental Protection Agency, people receive 0.3 rem per year from natural background radiation.
If 10,000 people are each exposed to 1 rem, in small doses over a lifetime (above the natural background exposure), according to the agency, the radiation will cause five or six excess deaths from cancer. In a group that size, about 2,000 would normally die from cancers not caused by radiation, so the extra dose would raise the total to 2,005 or 2,006.
So far only minute amounts of radioactivity from the Japanese reactors have been detected in the United States, in milk on both the East and West Coasts, and in rainfall in Massachusetts. American officials say instruments can detect levels so vanishingly small — far below the natural background level of radiation — that they pose no threat.
In parts of Japan, radioactivity has been detected at various times in milk, meat, vegetables and tap water, on the ground and in the sea around the power plant.
Levels in tap water in certain areas have sometimes been high enough for authorities to tell people to drink bottled water, and the Japanese government has banned the shipment of milk and produce from some prefectures.
Milk from those regions has been found to contain radioactive iodine, which accumulates in the thyroid gland and can cause cancer, especially in children. Levels in the milk have exceeded those considered a cause for concern in the United States.
Many of today's risk estimates are based on a study of 200,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. More than 40 percent are still alive.
The research has been going on for 63 years, and an article reviewing its findings was published in March in the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
So far, it is uncertain how relevant the results from bomb survivors are to members of the public in Japan who may have been exposed to radiation from the reactors.
"One concern is trying to find out what dose these people actually received" from the Fukushima reactors, said Dr. Evan B. Douple, the first author of the article on the bomb survivors and the associate chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, which studies the survivors and is paid for by the governments of Japan and the United States. It is the successor to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, which was created in 1947.
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Diane's night did not go well.
After obediently trussing up to please her mother in her Givenchy dress and driving halfway across town, Diane was disappointed to find that the "Rich Young Man" her insensitive mother had invited to dinner, was the boorish, narcissistic son of an obscure and equally narcissistic politician.
He had vulgar manners, he hunched over the soup, and munched loudly throughout the fish.
He made jokes about the "Help," maids who had helped raise Diane, suggesting that they were nearing their replacement date.
That idiot Mr. Denson, had even had the audacity to grab her and try to kiss her, in front of her parents! Diane had slapped him, of course, but instead of asking Mr. Denson to leave, Diane's horrible mother had demanded that Diane apologize.
Diane's father sat silently and mournfully at the head of the table the entire course of the evening, picking uncomfortably at his salad.
Diane stood, slapped Mr. Denson a second time - for good measure, thanked Missy and Miranda, the maids for dinner, and left.
In retrospect, Diane realized that it was a miracle that she did not kill someone or herself. She did not stop or slow until she collided with her mailbox, where she promptly killed the engine, stumbled out of the car, and collapsed on the porch.


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Category:Setups Main Page
Currently we have 230 setups on the MafiaWiki!
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What is a "Mafia Setup"?
A mafia setup is the name given to a group of roles and/or mechanics used in a game of mafia. Each setup has it's own strategies and play-styles, so if you don't like a certain aspect of mafia you can play a different setup which changes that aspect. The almost endless amount of possibilities is what makes mafia such a unique game.
What's the difference between an "Open" and "Closed" setup?
An Open Setup is a setup in which the players know all the roles and mechanics in the game they are playing. A Closed Setup is a setup in which the players do not have this information. The details of a Closed setup are decided before the game by the moderator and setup reviewers, and necessarily need to vary somewhat from game to game in order to keep them secret. At present, this wiki only documents Open setups (if it listed Closed setups, it would need to list a very large number so that players who knew that the setup came from the wiki could not quickly figure out which setup they were in by elimination). Running an Open setup as Closed is theoretically possible, but normally a bad idea for balance reasons; Town normally get more information from knowing which roles are present than the Mafia do, and thus hiding this information mean the Mafia are more likely to win.
You may notice we also have a third type of setup on the wiki; Semi-Open Setups. These are setups in which the players know that certain roles could be in the game, however they don't know which ones to their unique randomisation mechanics.
How are the setups sorted on this wiki?
As you can see, on the of this page there is an expandable navigation bar; click on it. In general setups you find all setups on the wiki, they are organised by size and other sub-categories which are explained on that page. Open setups is where all setup which are made to be run in the open game queue. For more information on how they are sorted please see that page.
Another thing to note is that the setups are not sorted by alphabetical order, they are sorted by size; "2" means the setup is for 2 players and "26" means 26 players. For more information see: Setups Sorting System.
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As you can see all setups have been sorted, this isn't automated so we need you to keep it this way. Here's some information to help you.
To keep this section of the wiki tidy and of high quality we have some standards which must be met on each setup page. Most of these are obvious and shouldn't really need noting however we have chosen to do so anyway.
- Each setup page must be named the name of the setup.
- Each setup page must include the Setup template (See below).
- Each setup page must contain all the roles and mechanics.
- Any new mechanics or roles must be explained on the page or linked to other page(s) explaining them.
- There should be a short introduction on every Setup page.
The Setup template
Wgeurts has made a template that does much of the sorting by itself as well as adding an information box, it is obligatory to every setup page on the wiki. Please learn how to use it here: Template:Setups.
This page may also help: Setups Sorting System.
The SetupPage template
Wgeurts has also made a template that generates setup pages with ease, it will automatically configure the page to include all the needed templates (It will fill the parameters in as well) and adds some extra nifty features which make maintenance easier such as the SetupHistory template, which is used to make setup usage history maintenance easier. It will automatically style the page to look good as an added bonus so there's no reason not to use it.
You can find it here: Template:SetupPage.
The RolePM template
This template can be used to add any exsisting role PM currently in the list Role PM's sub-category or it can be used to quickly make pre-formatted custom role PM's. This is very useful for moderators wishing to make use of a setup quickly without to much work, don't hesitate to use this.
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The SetupHistory template
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As an added bonus you are able to generate win-rate statistics for any setup page using this template (with the needed data ).
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I park by Maes-y-Garnedd and slip down to the old farmhouse to pay the small fee. I want to ask how long his family has lived here, wondering if he's descended from John Jones the regicide, whose birthplace this was. Oliver Cromwell's brother-in-law and a colonel in the New Model Army, he was a judge at Charles I's trial, was himself executed in October 1660 – hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in the bloodbath that followed the restoration of the monarchy. Samuel Pepys's diary gives a grim glimpse of his fate, describing how the howling mob bore his smoking limbs through the streets on the cold morning of his death.
The event seems to resonate with this harsh and unforgiving landscape of Cwm Nantcol. Here even the exposed rock is scratched and scoured by passage of ice. I climb on by a path rough and splashy in places, elsewhere leading over bare and polished slabs. It threads through heather and fractured bluffs to Bwlch Drws Ardudwy. If you want to see Wales at its very wildest, wind your way up to this wintry pass and prepare yourself to be astonished at the harshness of the old road to England.


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Sacrifice to Freedom
Paul took another step into the field. And then another. He spun around, hardly breathing. His eyes strained against the merry sunlight that bathed the land. He stood on a high hill; below him lay verdant valleys adorned in sparkling ribbon rivers, and behind him, great climbing mountains. There were villages spotted all along the rivers. Nestled at the foot of the mountain, a small city carried itself proudly under billowing green and white flags.
A soft breeze teased at his hair, carrying the heady perfume of the white flowers. He gazed, bewildered. His eyes could not absorb, his lungs could not breathe in, his mind could not understand all that lay before him. There was too much, too much, for one war-ravaged soul to grasp. He sunk to his knees and pulled up a blossom. He greedily drank in its scent, and brushed the petals against his stubbly cheek.
"It is real." He whispered. "It is real!" A wild half-laugh half-sob tore itself from his throat. He pulled up handfuls of flowers, smelled them and clutched them to his chest. He remained there for a long while, rocking himself back and forth, weeping and laughing at this incredible reality. Then a thought stopped him.
"The doorway!" He cried. Paul sprang to his feet, and raced back to where he had come in. The frame still stood, solitary as ever. Behind it, the London rubble; shrieking bomb sirens could still faintly be heard crying out over the ruin. A crazed fear rose up in Paul's heart. What if someone should come and take him back? Could the monstrous evil of war follow him, even here, to paradise? The desire to be free was too strong.
Paul threw himself at the wooden frame. Beating it with all of his strength. It shuddered helplessly. One of the posts cracked and gave way. The image of London flickered. Encouraged, Paul did not stop. With rage, he kicked it again and again. Finally it fell. Paul's home died away. All that was left was tired and broken wood. Splinters littered the field. Chest heaving, he stood over his handiwork; not as a great brute, but as a man who has escaped death. Silently, he made the sign of the cross across his chest.
Paul picked a blossom, and headed down the hill.


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This is the 14th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
Poor Paris Hilton started to cry.
Kim Kardashian explained with a sigh,
"We are the sex tape queens.
We are the mean machines.
Who the hell is this Sandeep Kumar guy?"
A minister who was farsighted
Said, "Men must not get too excited.
I would like to ban skirts,
Jail any girl that flirts,
Ban all women," he said, delighted.
Posted at 9:26 AM by Amit Varma in India | News | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
A slightly shorter version of this was published as the 30th installment of Lighthouse, my monthly column for BLink, a supplement of the Hindu Business Line.
In theory, a devout politician is a good thing. A politician who believes in God seems to accept the existence of an entity more powerful than himself, and that should be a reassuring thought to Indian voters. We have plenty of devout politicians here, and while the ones in the ruling party are most vocal about it, opposition politicians aren't far behind. Take Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, for example.
When he was sworn in as chief minister at the Ramlila Maidan, Kejriwal repeatedly thanked God for his newfound status. "I thank the Supreme Father, Ishwar, Allah, Waheguru," he breathlessly proclaimed, trying to cover all bases. And in case the concerned gods missed it, he later said, "This victory is not because of us. It is a miracle, and I thank Bhagwan, Ishwar and Allah." (At this point, I can imagine Bhagwan turning to Allah and saying, "Dude, any idea what he's talking about? I thought I was Ishwar!" And Allah replies, "Dunno, man. I'm just a party worker.")
Kejriwal's stated piety isn't restricted to the major religions. He recently came out in support of the Jain monk Tarun Sagar after the musician Vishal Dadlani made fun of him. Kejriwal tweeted: "Tarun Sagar ji Maharaj is a very revered saint, not just for Jains but everyone. Those showing disrespect is unfortunate and should stop." (The last sentence is stunningly convoluted, and we all know what Orwell said about clarity in speech correlating with clarity in thinking.)
Now, Kejriwal was reportedly an atheist before he came to politics, and it is natural to suspect that this new-found piety is part of the populism he's embraced. But let that pass. In this column I will argue that there is one religion that he truly, deeply, madly does believe in, and it is the most dangerous religion of all. It is the religion of government.
Contrary to popular belief, the majority religion in India is not Hinduism but the religion of government. We have been brought up believing that if there is any problem in this world, government can solve it. If there is a social ill, ban it. If prices are too high, pass a law demanding that they be kept low. If there aren't enough jobs out there, create jobs by legislation so that people can earn an honest living. And so on.
I call this, with apologies to Richard Dawkins, the God Delusion of Government. Devotees of this particular religion believe, like devotees of any other, that reality is subject to the whims and fancies of their God. To change the state of the world, God needs to merely decree it, or government needs to pass a law, and boom, reality changes. Water turns to amrut, copper to gold.
This kind of God delusion isn't restricted to India. A recent example of a country ruined by it is Venezuela, which has been ravaged by the socialist policies of Hugo Chavez. Venezuela was lucky to be oil-rich, but unlucky to have Chavez as a leader, who tried social engineering on a vast scale. One of his pet schemes: price controls on all essential commodities. (If something should be cheaper, let's make a law mandating it.) This led, as econ 101 would predict, to shortages, so much so that Venezuela's queues became legendary. The current government, perturbed that these queues were embarrassing the country, hit upon an innovative solution. It banned queues.
I'm not kidding. They really banned queues, and when I read that news, I thought of Kejriwal, because that's exactly what he would do.
Kejriwal thrives on finding the simplest possible solution to every problem through the Godlike intervention of government. He has no grasp on reality, though, and no understanding of how such interventions typically play out. Most tellingly, like Chavez and other socialists, he simply doesn't understand how the price system works.
Left to themselves, prices are determined by supply and demand. If the demand for a product or service outstrips supply, the price goes up. This rising price acts as a signal to potential suppliers, and they are incentivised to fill the gap. Similarly, if demand goes down, the price goes down, and suppliers start moving their efforts to where they would be more valued. We can only make a living by fulfilling the needs of others, and the price system gives us the information and the incentives to do this most efficiently. But for this, it has to be left to itself. If these signals are distorted, the system falls apart.
Now, Uber's surge pricing is a fantastic mechanism to speed up the process of price discovery. But Kejriwal decided that people were being fleeced by high prices, and decided to ban surge pricing. The ban didn't last long, because there was an immediate shortage of cabs, just as econ 101 would predict.
What happens when you put a price cap on something is that it becomes first-come-first-serve, and after the first lucky bunch get it, it doesn't matter how urgent your need is, it's not available at all. More crucially, the rising price that would act as both information and incentive now no longer does so, and other suppliers don't rush to fit the shortfall.
While that experiment didn't last long, Kejriwal moved from price ceiling to price floor. He announced an increase in the minimum wage in Delhi, to Rs 14k a month. Now, this sounds most compassionate, but is a government diktat enough? If it was, why not, say, make the minimum wage in Delhi Rs 10 lakhs a month? Wouldn't Delhi instantly become the richest city in the world?
The answer is obvious. Such a law would merely put everyone whose work was worth less than 10 lakhs out of a job, and most businesses would shut down. Similarly, if the minimum wage set is Rs 14k, it effectively renders everyone whose labour is worth less than that unemployable by decree. Businesses are forced to discriminate against anyone they'd pay 13k a month or less, and it is the poorest of the poor who would bear the brunt of this. The law would hurt those it purported to help. (Being the country of jugaad, all workers below the minimum wage level will simply be shifted to the informal sector, and government inspectors will get a higher hafta than before. But it is no defence of a bad law to say that peeps will find a way to work around it.)
For anyone who isn't economically illiterate, these effects are predictable. A price cap (or ceiling) inflates demand relative to supply, and a shortage in supply is inevitable. A price floor inevitably decreases demand and leads to excess supply—or, in this case, more unemployment.
The laws of economics, such as that of prices, and supply and demand, are as immutable as those of physics. So why are such interventions so popular then? A key reason is that the laws of physics can be tested and proved in controlled environments, but you can't do that with the laws of economics. Data is noisy, other variables abound, and all sides can point to 'evidence' with spurious correlations. So those who believe in such simplistic interventions continue with them, because it makes them feel (and seem) compassionate.
Kejriwal has a record of taking the high moral ground with self-righteous positions, and strikes a chord with common people by identifying many problems correctly. But his suggested solutions usually make the problems worse, as in the case of his anti-corruption crusade, or the different price controls he has championed. A good question to ask here is, Does he actually believe that such interventions work, or does he not give a damn about that, only wanting to take a position that gets him most votes from the economically illiterate masses? In other words, is he a devout fool or a devout scoundrel? Hanlon's Razor states, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." In Kejriwal's case, I'm not so sure. But he's devout all right, so God help us.
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For more on minimum wages in general, I find this explanation by Milton Friedman to be particularly lucid. Linda Gorman's piece on it at Econlib is also a decent short primer on the subject.
Posted at 4:11 PM by Amit Varma in Economics | Essays and Op-Eds | Freedom | India | Lighthouse | Politics
This is the 13th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
Usain Bolt was sprinting like a gale
When he was passed by Mrs Patel.
The crowd was entertained.
Mrs Patel explained,
'Haven't you heard? Zara has a sale!'
Once there was a minister of sport
Who loved using his pretty passport.
He went on pilgrimage
To the Olympic village.
What a superb holiday resort!
Posted at 9:09 AM by Amit Varma in Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes | Sport
This is the 12th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
There was a young girl who was told
Girls should be demure, never bold.
She gave a sharp retort
On the badminton court,
And almost won Olympic gold.
Once there was a Haryanvi lass
Who would never let a problem pass.
She'd fling it to the ground,
Expertly pin it down
Because desi girls can kick ass.
Posted at 8:53 AM by Amit Varma in India | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes | Sport
This is the 11th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
One day God came to me, full of grief.
'I'm distraught,' she said, 'I need relief.
Whatever I decree,
No one listens to me,
And now I'm losing my self-belief.'
There was a girl who loved to buy shoes,
Whether from Kolhapur or Toulouse.
She bought very many,
But never wore any
Because she wasn't able to choose.
Posted at 10:44 AM by Amit Varma in Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the 29th installment of Lighthouse, my monthly column for BLink, a supplement of the Hindu Business Line. Note for foreign readers: Isabgol is a legendary health supplement used to treat constipation.
It was 11pm at the end of a long day. A weary Donald Trump undressed in his hotel room. He had a habit of looking at the ceiling whenever he undressed, so that he wouldn't catch a glimpse of his hands. He had such tiny hands! To see his hands take off his designer shirt (he had the best shirt!) and his manly trousers (he had seen a lot of trousers, and let me tell you, these trousers were really good!) made him sad. It made him want to cry, and because real men don't cry, that then made him really angry. It started with the hands, though.
He flopped down on the bed. He was naked now, and had one more reason to not look down. He was worried. This was his fifth consecutive day without satisfactory bowel movement. He was full of shit. This made him irritable. In the last three days, he had a) lashed out at the mother of a soldier killed in combat, b) thrown a baby out of an election rally, and c) picked up a kitten at a townhall meeting and thrown it at a grandmother who was having a heart attack. The grandmother had immediately recovered, but the kitten had a heart attack, and the media was now saying vicious things about him, being really mean to him, very unfair. What was he supposed to do, throw the grandmother at the kitten?
He really needed to shit.
Just then, he saw something move at the end of the bed. He looked across, making sure not to get his tiny hands in the way. There was a little boy there. A little green boy. Trump couldn't believe what he was seeing. He rubbed his eyes, which took a long time because of his really tiny hands. But the boy was still there. Was he imagining the boy? Should he speak to him? What if someone sees him speaking to an imaginary green boy? The New York Times would go crazy. Why were they so nasty with him?
'Who are you?' he finally asked.
'My name is Isabgol,' the boy said. 'Gosh, you have such small hands.'
'No I don't, I have really big hands,' said Trump. 'I've seen a lot of hands, and let me tell you, my hands are the biggest. They're huge!' He covered his hands and something else with the bedsheet. 'What are you doing here? What do you want?'
'I have been sent to this planet with one mission,' said Isabgol. 'And that is to get rid of excess shit. There is too much shit in the world. And so, here I am.'
Trump stared at Isabgol in astonishment. It was true that the last five days had been hard because of the absence of motions. Could he really be the leader of the free world when he was thus constrained?
'How do you do that? And wait, before you do any of that, are you an immigrant? Are you a Muslim? Are you a Muslim from Mexico? Because, you know, I'm building this wall…'
Isabgol sighed. 'I was warned about this. So much shit. Listen, first, not only am I not from America, I'm not even from Earth. I come from a faraway planet called Bengal. And second, when I speak of clearing up shit, I'm speaking metaphorically. I couldn't care less about your bowel movements. No, I'm going to spin my magic on you, and when I'm done, there'll be no more shit in your head. Oh no, babumoshai, you'll actually be a good, decent human being then. You'll be respectful to your opponents. You'll start treating women as real people. Why, you'll even learn to like your hands.'
Trump jumped up and backed away. 'Don't come near me,' he squealed. He had been terrified many times in his life—fear is all you see behind every bully's mask—but this was something else. A little green kid was going to make him a good person?
Isabgol advanced, repulsed by the task but excited by the challenge. Trump shrank away. Isabgol moved forward. Trump withdrew. Isabgol was almost there. Trump was in a foetal position. And then, Trump felt something right next to his tiny, miniscule, almost invisible hands. It was a glass of water. His last line of defence!
With all the strength he could muster from his alleged hands, for one couldn't quite see them, Trump threw the water at Isabgol. Water, water everywhere. Isabgol was covered in the water. He looked at Trump with a glimmer in his eyes. Trump shivered. He knew that he had made a grave mistake.
Isabgol began to expand.
At the press conference the next day, everyone was rubbing their eyes except Trump.
'Hillary is such a fine lady,' he said. 'I remember, she came to one of my weddings. Many people come to my weddings. But she was the best. Just perfect.'
'What about Obama?' a brave cub reporter asked.
'He is a great American,' said Trump. 'I may disagree with him on some issues, though I wouldn't know which because I'm not well-informed enough to have meaningful opinions, but he is a decent man. And Michelle is such a charming lady. I tell Ivanka, when you grow up, I want you to be like that. You hear me? Just like Michelle!'
Meanwhile, backstage, two of Trump's campaign managers looked at each in bewilderment.
'What happened to the boss?' one of them said. 'He's so full of shit today.'
Posted at 2:09 PM by Amit Varma in Lighthouse | Politics
It's been a long time since I wrote something substantive on sport, so here are two recent essays I've written that scratched my itch. The first, published in The Cricket Monthly, is a 4000-word longread titled 'What Cricket Can Learn From Poker'. It basically talks about the importance of probabilistic thinking, not just in poker and cricket but also in life in general. In what is a cricket magazine, I get in thoughts on poker, probability, football, the free-will-vs-determinism debate and even the Bhagawad Gita. An excerpt:
One way to think about probability is to imagine parallel universes. You flip an evenly weighted coin, and instantly the world splits into 1000 parallel worlds, and the coin falls heads in 500 of them and tails in the other 500. You flip again and these universes are split into units of 250, each showing sequences of HH, HT, TH and TT. You keep flipping.
This is true for everything that happens. Every single thing that happens in this world (or may happen) has a probability attached to it. These probabilities change at every instant, affected by all other events to some degree or the other. So imagine, in every single moment, for every single event, the parallel universes multiplying. You can increase or decrease the number of hypothetical parallel universes depending on how granular you wish to make the thought experiment, but there are basically infinite parallel universes, each of them containing unique outcomes. And the world that you are in right now is just one of trillions of trillions of freakin' gazillions. Imagine the level of randomness, then, of this world being what it is.
My other essay, 'The Tamilian Gentleman Who Took On The World', was part of ESPN.in's series of The Top 20 Moments in Indian Sport. Vishy Anand winning the undisputed chess world championship in 2007 was ranked No. 4 by ESPN, though I would place it at the top. Being a chess lover, I'm obviously biased, but I'd hope that after reading my piece, which is about the context of Anand's remarkable achievement, you will agree with me!
Posted at 4:29 PM by Amit Varma in Essays and Op-Eds | Poker | Sport
This is the second of two limericks in the 10th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
Pappu woke to slaps from his mama.
He explained why he caused such drama.
'Parliament is a bore
I was tired. What's more,
I was already in my pajama.'
Posted at 11:05 AM by Amit Varma in India | News | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the first of two limericks in the 10th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
Once mosquitoes as big as a bus
Attacked me with a great deal of fuss.
They chased me around,
And now I have found
They're playing Pokemon Go with us.
Posted at 10:56 AM by Amit Varma in Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the 9th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
Once the Congress seemed rather smug.
'Gandhi' was their designer drug.
Do they now realise
That the Gandhi franchise
Is not a feature but a bug?
A wise man said, 'An eye for an eye
Makes the whole world blind.' Those who decry
This circle of violence
Must speak through the silence.
We'll fall too far if we don't aim high.
Posted at 9:29 AM by Amit Varma in Freedom | India | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the 8th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
There was a man with a giant belly
Who sat all day glued to his telly.
Then he died. He was gone,
But the belly lived on.
Now it throws great parties in New Delhi.
There was a man with a giant head
Who told us where the future led.
His brain was so loaded,
One day it exploded
And now he's confined to his bed.
Posted at 8:05 AM by Amit Varma in Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
Swarajya plays the gender card on behalf of Smriti Irani:
The jokes on Smriti being handed textiles ministry, misunderstanding it for a ministry of 'texting', or the beti being given a sewing machine instead of education, have come from even the most feminist of women, all with unbridled glee at seeing a woman fail.
The cherry-picking of a women to be slammed in a manner that is degrading and humiliating of the person, and not their work, must rankle anyone.
Indeed, I had reacted to Irani's transfer with this limerick, which I presume is the joke being referred to above. I've been a critic of Irani for a long time, and the reason for that is not her gender, but her "ignorance and arrogance", as Ram Guha put it so aptly. The cabinet reshuffle indicates that even Narendra Modi agrees with Ram Guha and me on this matter, and it might well be a first that the three of us are lined up on the same side of an issue.
The Swarajya piece also indulges in a bit of Whataboutery, implying that men don't get criticized in this manner. Speaking for myself, I've lampooned Rahul 'Pappu' Gandhi (Recent examples: 1,2) and Modi (1, 2, 3) far more than I've criticized Irani. To the best of my knowledge, they are not women at this point in time. But even if I wasn't an equal opportunity satirist, the Whataboutery would have been uncalled for.
This is not to say that there hasn't been some disgusting sexism directed at Irani, or that we aren't a country of sexists. Those are true, but to imply that the very act of criticizing Irani is sexist simply because she is a woman is absurd. All political discourse will end if we take that line: You won't be able to criticize any woman because someone will call it sexist, or any Muslim because you'll be labelled Islamophobic, or any government minister because you'll be called anti-national. There is no end of cards to play.
In an essay I wrote a few weeks ago, 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics', I described how so much political discourse ends up as attacks on the person making the argument instead of the argument itself. I outlined three ways in which that happens. Swarajya's article is a perfect illustration of that, as it covers all three of those. So you lampooned Irani? Well, that reveals three things about you. One, you're a hypocrite, because you didn't lampoon Kapil Sibal earlier. Two, you're sexist, and your intention is to demean women. Three, you're part of the 'liberal brigade'.
It is almost as if this piece was written to illustrate my point, so thank you for that, Swarajya!
Posted at 4:10 PM by Amit Varma in India | News | Politics | WTF
Smriti Irani spent quite a while
Sending messages on her mobile
Putting callers on hold
Until she was told
Her job wasn't texting, but textile.
Posted at 11:21 PM by Amit Varma in India | News | Politics | Rhymes
This is the second of two limericks from the 7th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page.
A neta who loves currency notes
Told me what his line of work denotes.
'It is kind of funny.
We steal people's money
And use some of it to buy their votes.'
Posted at 9:23 AM by Amit Varma in Freedom | India | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the first of two limericks from the 7th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page.
Donald Trump was full of indignation.
He wanted to undo immigration.
God granted his prayer,
Made the US all bare,
And once more a Red Indian nation.
Posted at 9:15 AM by Amit Varma in Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the sixth installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page.
A man said to me on the Virar Fast,
'We're a nation with a glorious past.
In both science and art,
Our ancients were smart.
Oh, by the way, what is your caste?'
Once I had a patriotic guest
Who told me, 'Indians are the best.
Yes, inflation is dicey,
Tomatoes are pricey,
But our PM has a 56-inch chest!'
Posted at 8:51 AM by Amit Varma in India | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
I woke up in the morning with a sense of dread.
There was a righteous voice inside my head
Saying, 'Get up and play!
It's World Yoga Day!'
So I yawned and did some asanas in bed.
Posted at 1:55 PM by Amit Varma in India | Politics | Rhymes
This is the fifth installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page.
Once there was a man named Modi
Who fell in love with a Bengali boudi.
He had such a huge crush
That he would copiously blush
At the very thought of sitting in her godi.
There was a man named Barack Obama
Who one day misplaced his pajama,
So he said, "All righty,
I'll just sleep in a nightie.
Hey Michelle, tonight I'm the hot mamma!"
Posted at 11:01 AM by Amit Varma in Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the second of two limericks in the fourth installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page.
An army of ladies stormed the RBI Gate
To meet Raghu, and set the record straight.
They said, 'If you gotta go,
Then you oughta know
That you will never, ever lower our interest rate.'
Posted at 9:46 AM by Amit Varma in India | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the first of two limericks in the fourth installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page.
'Mommy, Mommy, throw me a party,'
Said Pappu the Prince, all hale and hearty.
Mommy said, 'Fine.
The Congress was mine.
Now it's yours, my cute little smarty!'
Posted at 9:38 AM by Amit Varma in India | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
This is the 28th installment of Lighthouse, my monthly column for BLink, a supplement of the Hindu Business Line.
How do we choose our sporting heroes? I believe they are born in three ways. One, at a primal level, we pick them on the basis of tribalism. We support someone because they are doing well for the club or country we support, and that is reason enough. Two, we like them for their specific skills in a game that we love. The elegance of a Federer, the technical finesse of a Dravid, and so on. Three, we like them for reasons that go beyond the sport. Maybe their story evokes something personal in us. Maybe we are drawn to them because we are a species that understands the world through stories, and there is something universal about their journey that goes beyond the sport.
Muhammad Ali, who died a few days ago, transcended boxing. His life was so deeply intertwined with American history in the 1960s and '70s that to immerse yourself in the story of the man would be to understand the history of the nation. His journey encapsulated the essential conflicts of his times to such a degree that his sporting achievements almost didn't matter.
Ali was born Cassius Clay, named after a 19th century abolitionist who defied the dominant narratives of his times. So did Ali. He did this, first, with regard to the way he boxed. Heavyweight boxers were supposed to be men of heft and power, but Ali subverted expectations by being a big man who danced around the ring with balletic grace, who could turn a brawl into an artistic display. His model was the welterweight (and later middleweight) Sugar Ray Robinson, a much smaller man. Boxing pundits didn't take the young Clay seriously. The iconic sports writer AJ Liebling described him after his Olympic Gold win in Rome 1960 as 'attractive but not probative', and later dissed him as 'Mr Swellhead Bigmouth Poet'. He was such an underdog in his first World Championship match against Sonny Liston in 1964 that his team found out which hospital had the best emergency room and mapped out the quickest route there from the venue. They thought Liston might kill him.
But the narratives that really mattered had nothing to do with boxing style, and he subverted them too. Boxing was a gladiatorial sport in America in the 50s and 60s, run by the mob, and many top boxers, usually black, like Liston, were virtually owned by the mob. Audiences needed palatable, simple narratives as packaging for the sport: Liston vs Patterson, for example, was sold as a fight between 'Bad Negro' and 'Good Negro', with one man (Liston) an uncivilised brute, feeding into racist fears of the archetypal black savage, and the other (Patterson) a sophisticated 'liberal's liberal', as the novelist James Baldwin called him. (Both portraits were unfair.) But Ali would not allow others to shape his story.
Soon after his shock win over Liston in 1964, Ali further shocked America by announcing that he had joined the Nation of Islam, and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Many resisted this, and as if to remind him of who he really was, kept calling him by his 'slave name' of Cassius Clay. But Ali fought back. In 1967, he got into the ring against Ernie Terrell, a black heavyweight who refused to address him by his chosen name, and kept taunting him as he jabbed him repeatedly, 'What's my name, Uncle Tom? What's my name?'
His bravest act, with which he lifted himself above his sport, was refusing to be drafted. Conscription is a form of slavery, and Ali refused to be a slave again. He was stripped of his title, and lost almost four years and tens of millions of notional dollars for his act, but he would not waver or compromise. In the magisterial biography 'King of the World', David Remnick quotes Gerald Early, a literature professor, describing what Ali's action meant to him as a teenager: 'When he refused, I felt something greater than pride: I felt as though my honour as a black boy had been defended, my honour as a human being.'
Ali came back into the sport and won the heavyweight title again, and achieved much glory in boxing. Not all of his story is uplifting. He often went overboard with hate-filled rhetoric, especially in his early days with the Nation of Islam, and his disrespect of his opponents, and his trash talk, often crossed the line. This is particularly so with Joe Frazier, who had helped Ali get his boxing license back after his suspension was over, but then became roadkill on Ali's journey. In the words of the writer William Nack, Ali 'humiliated and enraged and ultimately isolated Frazier, casting him as a shuffling and mumbling Uncle Tom, an ugly and ignorant errand boy for white America.' He called him 'an ugly gorilla' among other things, building a mythology around himself that was as false as the racist narratives he had earlier rebelled against. (He justified it as good marketing for the fight, but Frazier carried the scars forever. Nack memorably wrote later that Ali had been 'living rent-free for Frazier's head for more than 25 years.')
As much as Ali transcended the sport, he was also a creature of the sport, and the sport is essentially barbaric: one man beating another man, ideally causing brain damage (for the knockout is the ideal end to all fights), a negative-sum game where in the end both men lose. The accumulated blows that Ali took were a likely cause of his Parkinson's, and as his legend grew over the decades, the man himself faded.
But the ways in which boxing diminished him—and before that he diminished himself—should not affect his legacy. All human beings are frail and weak and flawed in countless public and private ways—but very few people rise above themselves, and their sport, and their times, to the extent that Ali did. He meant so much to so many. As Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote in a recent tribute: 'I may be 7'2", but I never felt taller than when standing in his shadow.'
More than the shadow, though, it was the light.
Posted at 12:59 PM by Amit Varma in Essays and Op-Eds | Lighthouse | Sport
Some people called the PM a thug.
Mr Modi replied with a shrug,
'I'm not sophisticated,
It is true that I am hated,
But hey, I really like to hug!'
Posted at 11:55 AM by Amit Varma in India | Politics | Rhymes
Here's a classic illustration of unintended consequences: Parsis are being cremated now, instead of being fed to vultures, because of an anti-inflammatory drug given to cattle in the 1990s.
And somewhere a butterfly flaps its wings.
Posted at 10:46 AM by Amit Varma in India | News
Hillary let off a joyous scream
She said, 'This is such a dream.
That fellow Trump
Who I'm gonna thump
Behaves like he is on my team.'
Posted at 8:10 AM by Amit Varma in Politics | Rhymes
This is the third installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page
There was a man named Subramanian Swamy
Who was known to be kind of barmy.
PM Modi put him right.
He said, 'I know you like to fight,
So why don't you join the bloody army?'
Subbu Swamy filed a case against God.
Subbu Swamy accused God of fraud.
Much thunder was heard.
God said, 'How absurd!
Such chutzpah I really must applaud.'
Posted at 8:05 AM by Amit Varma in India | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
I have four quick comments to make on the Tanmay Bhat controversy. (The first two are trivial but need to be repeated, I think.)
One: Our laws are still screwed up. The repeal of 66(a) of the IT Act was rightly celebrated as a win for freedom, but there are already laws in the IPC, like 295(a) and 153(a), which can also be used to strike out against Free Speech. (Here's an ancient piece of mine on the subject: Don't Insult Pasta.) The last I heard, people were planning to file a case against Bhat using those laws. I hope they don't. And those laws should really not exist. As long as he is not directly inciting violence, Bhat should have the right to say whatever he wants, however offensive, however obnoxious.
Two: By the same token, others have a right to react to his comedy in whatever way they please, as long as they're not trying to force him to shut up. So someone who says his comedy is disgusting is not attacking Bhat's right to free speech unless he follows up by filing a case or trying to get him banned or whatever. And we can react to their reactions in the same way, and so on recursively. That's what social media is for, isn't it?
Three: The quality of Tanmay's humour is less important to me than the context of it. Standup comedy in India is relatively young. (We have a great, centuries old tradition of humour, actually, but not this specific form, so don't hit me with history and tradition, please.) And we are too quick to get offended. So it's important to keep pushing the envelope, to keep stretching those boundaries. Nothing should be sacred. No holy cows.
Now, because our standup ecosystem is nascent, all the stuff that floats to the top won't be of the highest quality. But that doesn't matter. I didn't enjoy all the humour in the AIB Roast, but boy, am I glad they did it. These guys are putting themselves out there, unlike many of us armchair observers. That is admirable in itself. And while doing it, they're also taking giant steps forward for Indian standup comedy. (In these early days, all steps are giant steps.) That, in itself, deserves applause.
Four: Sit back and think for a moment about the nature of comedy itself. When Bhat says that Mangeshkar's face looks like it has been kept in water for eight days, or he invokes the bitterness of a notional Sachin Tendulkar, is he really talking about just them? I don't know Bhat personally, but I'm pretty sure he is under no illusion about his own good looks, or his mortality, or his importance to this world. Very few comedians are. If anything, comedians are people who've realised the essential tragic nature of the world, and certain fundamental truths about the human condition, such as a) our mortality, b) the huge role of dumb luck in our lives and c) the self-delusions which we need to survive, and with which we convince ourselves of our own importance. (I'm sure Bhat doesn't think about it in these precise terms, but you get the drift.) Once you figure this out, the only appropriate reaction is laughter.
So when Bhat subverts the notion of Sachin and Lata as hallowed figures who cannot be made fun of, he is really just telling us to laugh at ourselves. 'Look at us, we're so funny and pathetic. Hahaha.' I think he does it really well—that Mangeshkar 'face in water' joke is observational genius—but even if you don't, it should not matter. More power to him regardless.
I just hope, after all this, he doesn't end up apologizing.
Posted at 3:03 PM by Amit Varma in Arts and entertainment | Freedom | India | News
Every Sunday, two of my limericks appear on the edit page of the Sunday Times of India. Here's today's installment.
Once there was an airport named Gandhi
Where all flights were grounded in an aandhi.
So with a laugh and a cough,
The airport flew off,
Now all the pilots are sitting drinking brandy.
Once there was an internet troll
Who was pushed into a toilet bowl
By his dad, who decreed,
'Having seen your twitter feed,
I hereby perform delayed birth control.'
Posted at 8:33 AM by Amit Varma in India | Politics | Rhyme and Reason | Rhymes
Talk about catching a lucky break. A 60-year-old woman at Ghatkopar station yesterday sauntered onto the platform, got down on the tracks and lay down on them just as a local train arrived.
At least two bogies passed over her before the driver applied the brakes. She came out almost unscathed, with just an injury on a toe on the left foot.
One moment she is lying down on the railway tracks, a train heading towards her, and she feels this terrible, unspeakable sadness. A few seconds later, the train has gone over her, and she's still alive. What do you think she feels then?
There's no similarity in the plot, but I thought of Jean-Paul Sartre's great short story, 'The Wall' (pdf link) when I read this.
Posted at 5:43 PM by Amit Varma in News | Small thoughts
Once there was a guy called Sandy
Who behaved all macho and randy,
But guys who flex their pecs
Usually have a complex:
He might well be an impotent dandy.
(Pic courtesy Veena Venugopal on Twitter.)
Posted at 4:44 PM by Amit Varma in India | News | Rhymes
It is ironic that one of the great unifying forces in Indian history has become such a polarising figure decades after his death. The 'Sanghis' lambast Jawaharlal Nehru as a pseudo-secularist, anti-religion, anti-sangh socialist demon, and the 'Congressis' have already lifted him into sainthood. But these binaries are misleading.
Nehru was neither a saint nor a sinner. In my view, he was a great man who has great achievements to his name, as well as a few giant missteps. I admire him for keeping India together in those early years, when that wasn't as much of a given as it now seems, for keeping us secular, for building great institutions, and for setting standards of behaviour in public life. Equally, I think his Fabian Socialism kept India poor for decades longer than it should have, with an incalculable cost in terms of lives and living standards. His economic policies were misguided, though, not malicious. He really did believe that was the way forward, and it was in keeping with the intellectual fashion of the times. Maybe he could have had less certitude in his beliefs and been more open to criticism—from the likes of the sidelined Rajaji, for example—but hey, hindsight is 20-20, and I know that I for one could never have walked in those shoes.
It's ironic and sad, as I mentioned in my last post, that his great opponents in the Hindutva right are not just following him in many respects, but they are following all the wrong aspects of his legacy. They're perpetuating big-state, mai-baap economics while they try to polarise the country with their divisive, communal rhetoric. They're embracing the worst of Nehru while discarding the best of him.
This post was sparked, btw, by an editorial in Mint today titled 'In defence of Jawaharlal Nehru.' I disagree with the manner and focus of their defence, though. They write:
The Nehruvian project was part of the wider liberal nationalist project—to begin the overdue economic regeneration of India through industrialization led by the state, to seek strategic autonomy in a Cold War world through the principle of non-alignment, to build a new nation-state within a constitutional framework, and to create new institutions for a modern India emerging from several centuries of foreign rule.
It is far easier to attack Nehru for specific policy errors than it is to question his overarching concerns.
This is true: but it is also true that just as we judge policies by their outcomes and not their intentions, we should do the same when we talk of leaders. Nehru's intentions were certainly noble: but so were those of Mao, Pol Pot and the Soviets. Intentions stand for nothing. It is actions and their outcomes that matter. In that, Nehru has a mixed record, and there is much to praise. Those should be the focus of any defence of Nehru.
Ps. For what it's worth, my feelings on Indira Gandhi are very different. There is nothing redeeming about her record, and she was truly a vile, evil woman. If Kamala Nehru had had a headache for all of 1917, the world would have been a better place. But one can't blame Jawaharlal for that!
Posted at 4:08 PM by Amit Varma in India | News | Politics
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This character's creator described him as "insufferable", and called him a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep". On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?


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'The Perfect Storm'Fisher's touchdown run in OT gives Pisgah its fourth consecutive 'County Clash' victory
CANTON — Over the course of the previous 52 meetings on a sacred acre in Haywood County, commonly known as a gridiron, so much has happened in the state's greatest football rivalry between Pisgah and Tuscola.
There have been so many great plays, not so great plays, critical coaching decisions that have paid huge dividends and some that have backfired. Every year when the Black Bears and Mountaineers meet, more and more fans flock to the stadium.
The players who have played in the County Clash have never played perfectly, but always the result of the rivalry had a perfect ending — at least for one team.
For the first time this late in the season, both teams met sporting undefeated records and ranked in the Top 10 poll. Tenth-ranked Tuscola came in to the County Clash with the No. 1 scoring offense in the state, while No. 5-ranked Pisgah had the No. 8 scoring defense.
Lump it all together, it created the perfect storm for the 53rd County Clash.
In front of a record-setting 13,000-plus fans at Memorial Stadium, Tuscola stormed out to a 17-0 halftime lead, but Pisgah stormed right back and forced the game into overtime tied at 17.
However, it was Pisgah senior Isaiah Fisher's game-winning five-yard touchdown run that gave the Black Bears a dramatic 23-20 win over their rival Mountaineers.
The win was Pisgah's fourth consecutive win over Tuscola and improved the Black Bears to 8-0 overall and 4-0 in the WNC Athletic Conference. Tuscola dropped to 7-1 overall and 3-1 in the WNCAC.
The series is now tied at 26-26-1.
The last time a team won four straight games in this historic rivalry was back in the 80s when the Mountaineers did it from 1984 to 1987.
"The only thing I am going to say about this win is this rivalry is more that just a game to us," said Brett Chappell, who improved to 4-0 against Tuscola since becoming Pisgah's head coach in 2013.
Trailing 17-0 at the break, Pisgah took the second half's opening kickoff and went on a 13-play, 67-yard scoring drive in 7:37, which was capped by sophomore quarterback Tanner Wike's 2-yard TD run. Senior placekicker Tanner Fox was true on the PAT and the Black Bears sliced into the Mountaineers' lead, 17-7.
"We knew that we had shot ourselves in the foot in the first half," said Wike. "We had to come out the second half and just believe this team can do anything. Everyone on the team has big hearts so we just took it to them the second half. I knew that Fisher was going to score. They have not stopped that play all night."
Tuscola led 17-7 until Fox kicked a 26-yard field goal with 2:02 left in the game to cut the deficit to seven points, 17-10.
However, what happened next will always be remembered as one of the great plays in this great rivalry.
Instead of slowly bouncing the onside kick, Fox drilled a one hop rocket off a Mountaineer and senior Houston Rogers dove on it for the Black Bears at Pisgah's 48.
On the first play from the line of scrimmage, Wike stepped up in the pocket and connected on a 43-yard pass with junior Chase Henson, who stumbled and fell on the turf at the Tuscola five. On the big pass play, however, Tuscola was flagged for a face mask penalty, which moved the ball to the Mountaineers' two.
"My heart was pounding, especially in the second half," said Henson. "I think, well, I know for me, its every Pisgah player's dream to become part of the history of this great rivalry and make a big play that helps us win the game. I know I speak for all the coaches and all my teammates, this rivalry is huge for us. Always has been and always will be. We all feel the same way, we can't have a great season without beating Tuscola. What an incredible night. Beating Tuscola four years in a row is amazing."
On the very next play, Pisgah senior running back Michael Parrott bowled over from the two and Fox split the pipes to tie the game at 17 with 1:31 left on the clock.
But there were more heroics to come in this rivalry as Tuscola had three timeouts left and 91 seconds to get the ball into field goal range to attempt a game-winning field goal.
Starting at their own 24, Tuscola junior quarterback Grayson Perkins put his team on his back and got the Mountaineers to the Pisgah 40 with 32 seconds left after completing a 32-yard pass to senior Roman Jenkins.
But on the next play, Perkins' pass was tipped up in the air and intercepted by Henson at the Black Bears' 26 and the speedy cornerback returned the ball 50 yards to the Tuscola 24 with 18.6 seconds left in regulation.
After a short pass completion, 15.1 seconds on the clock and no timeouts at his disposal, Chappell elected to kick a 40-yard field goal. But Tuscola senior Caleb Ferguson, who had already blocked six field goals and PATs this season, blocked Fox's kick to send the rivalry into overtime for the second consecutive year.
In the top of the first overtime, Ben Katt gave Tuscola a temporary 20-17 lead when he kicked a 27-yard field.
In the bottom of the first OT, Fisher raced around the right side for a 5-yard gain.
On second down from the five, Pisgah offensive coordinator Rickey Brindley again called Fisher's number and the same play.
It worked to perfection as Fisher followed blocks by Parrott and senior Trey Morgan into the corner of the end zone for the game winning touchdown, setting off a massive on-field celebration.
"I just knew that I had to score," said Fisher. "We just had to pick it up in the second half and just believe. Coach Chappell told us all at halftime if there was any player in the locker room that did not truly believe we were going to win this game in the second half, they needed to stay in the locker room. We all came out. We believe in each other and we believe in our coaches. Beating Tuscola four years in a row just feels amazing."
In the first half, Tuscola took a 3-0 lead when Katt kicked a 35-yard field goal with 4:31 left in the first quarter.
With 1:03 left in the opening quarter, Perkins' pass into the end zone was tipped up in the air but fell into the hands of Elijah Trantham in the back of the end zone to give the Mountaineers a 10-0 lead.
In the second quarter, Perkins scored on a 4-yard rush to give Tuscola a 17-0 lead with 3:37 left.
Pisgah finished with 367 (200 rushing, 167 passing) yards in total offensive compared to Tuscola's 241 (182 rushing, 59 passing). The Mountaineers had 183 yards in total offense at the half compared to the Black Bears' 125.
In the first down department, Pisgah finished with 21 (13 in the second half), while Tuscola had 15 (only one in the second half).
For Tuscola, Ferguson had 108 yards on the ground and was held out of the end zone for the first time this season. Perkins, who was 3-of-6 passing for 59 yards, rushed for 21 yards and senior Brent Turner had just 29 rushing yards on eight carries.
For Pisgah's balanced rushing attack, Fisher had 97 yards on 11 carries and caught four passes for 14 yards, while Parrott had 65 yards on the ground and Wike, who was 19-of-25 passing for 167 yards, rushed for 39 yards.
Morgan caught nine passes for 76 yards, Henson hauled in four passes for 57 yards, sophomore Zeke Long had one reception for seven yards and Rogers caught one pass for 13 yards.
Up next for Tuscola is a home date with East Henderson on Friday, Oct. 21, while Pisgah hosts North Henderson.


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- 1 Cup milk
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 6 California avocados, pureed
- ¾ Cup orange juice
- ½ Cup pineapple juice
- 1/3 Cups lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp finely chopped orange zest
- 2 Tbsp finely chopped lemon zest
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Not Pam, but Jim, if you are interested in any of the baby pecan trees I'll
have next spring (or black walnut trees) I'll be only too happy to send you
some of them. The native pecans I have are small, but they are delicious.
Also have some large ones. I used to try gathering them, but I'm way to lazy
so I just let the squirrels have all of them.
zone 7
West TN
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