My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
It was part of your religion to hate the British.
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.
I'm not a big sports fan.
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
