Calvin is being tucked into bed by his mother. “Mom, can you tell me a new bedtime story? None of your Jataka tales about monkeys and crocodiles. I want a modern story.” “Okay, how about this one? Across the world, there is a land with tigers and elephants in its forests, and very peaceful people…
I know the script I am supposed to follow for this post. I should apologize profusely for my absence, promise that I have seen the light and that henceforth, my posts will all be very interesting and spaced out exactly 3 days apart. Why 3 days, you may ask. Well, if I did actually get…
Years creep up before you know. There were some posts I’d written a long time back, which have always remained in suspended animation. They are not drafts because they are complete. They are not published because I don’t like them all that much. So they have been sent way with a promise of future publishing.…
The knighthood is a mistake. I was shocked to hear that Terry Pratchett had been awarded a knighthood. I love reading Pratchett’s books, as you know, and I think he is a wonderful author. Is he deserving of the knighthood? Absolutely, much more than all those bureaucrats who get their MBEs and OBEs every year.…
The Imagined Universe 