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As a people we must ask ourselves one question: do we really have the appetite for unvarnished truth? Or is this a selective menu where only some things are palatable to us?

Barkha Dutt has a must read article in the Hindustan Times on how much truth we as the Indian Public want.

How much skepticism are we willing to apply when it comes to our institutions and the statements coming out from them?

This is my next cell phone, the Nokia E71. I had heard this was coming out a while ago, but was reminded again today when I saw a link on Mobile Crunch to an accidentally  Nokia demo, which had already been taken offline before I could watch it. I started googling a bit and found this pre release review.

It takes a lot to get us excited but the E71 has done it. This thing, in our opinion, is the best phone Nokia has made to date. That’s a very bold statement, we know. But this really is going to be the phone to beat by a lot of manufacturers. From the design, to the specs, to the size, the feel — it has the entire package.

Ive been using the E61 for almost 2 years now, and its time for a change. I was thinking of the E61i, but now I am going to wait till this ones out. 

I was reading this post on ultrabrown, and saw the last image of screenshots from Mike Meyers new movie The Love Guru.

Roughly translated that says: You worship or honor the hair on my butt .

Found via India Uncut

Found an interesting comment on outsourcing called Doubtsourcing. Uneven in quality but this one is pretty funny

There are no links to each individual cartoon so put one of the funny ones up here.

Found this

My Sunday morning routine includes reading some pf the opinion pieces in TOI, Indian Express and the HT. Hindustan Times is normally first, mainly due to Vir Sanghvis column. They also offer individual columnist RSS feeds, or at least a feed for Vir Sanghvi’s column. So I didn’t get a link last week or this week in my Reader, so went to the website. I opened the op-ed page, in anew window and did a search from the main page for Vir Sanghvi. I found his newest article on the op-ed page, so, was about to close the search page, when I saw it. Here is a screenshot:

The dude must have written hundreds of columns for HT, he is the Editor of HT, but the search feature doesn’t like him.

An absolutely fascinating article from Popular Mechanics, that looks at 10 Science Fiction Movies, and how well they predicted the future. Ive seen all the movies except Soylen Green and Destination Moon. It seems like  a pretty good list but there are at least 2 movies missing, both directed by Terry Gilliam.

Brazil was released in 1985. It dealt with themes of a surveillance society and how a bureaucrat goes about trying to achieve happiness. Its whimisical but there are some uncomfortable truths about our society portrayed in the film.

12 Monkeys also directed by Gilliam, has time travel as a part of its plot, which Im guessing is not something forseeable in the near future, and might be why it wasnt included in the list. Thats just one part of the plot. We see a world which has been wiped out by an weaponized virus, we see how Animals have reclaimed urban areas.

The article was written in memory of Arthur C. Clarke, who predicted a number of future technologies such as Geo Stationary Orbit.