The title of this blog is my homage to a writer and a journalist, a man considered by many to be the conscience of his generation, Eric Blair aka George Orwell - his crystal clear prose, his felicity of language, his incisive grasp of contemporary issues. It strives as language as a clear pane of glass and this blog is an attempt, perhaps deeply inadequate, in that direction.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Some Links
Why don't we do it on the road? -- for once, not about Indians but about the British
Farmer in Chief -- The era of cheap and abundant food is drawing to a close and how to rework food habits and the food industry
Four Letter words and Freedom's curse - Steve Pinker argues that four-letter-peppered speech gets tedious, and malicious epithets can express condemnable attitudes. But in a free society, these annoyances are naturally regulated in the marketplace of people’s reactions.
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