Mithila

Well, I'm getting my bearings in this sea-green world with the floating clouds. Outside, the traffic snarls past, while the cuckoo sings.

@ShashiTharoor Till society changes, what about holding the police immediately responsible for not following protocol? A month's suspension?

@BostonGlobe Could Dzhokhar's Mom and brother have used her run-in with the police to tip him over into an extremist world view?

@Mithila Also, letting medical specialisation be driven by the wealthy market will mean no doctors for the poor man's diseases. @DNA

Private healthcare can't improve public health: Amartya Sen dnai.in/bfvx via @DNA

Terrorism is the New Religion. It's sometimes green, and sometimes saffron.

OSCAR W Some do the deed with many tears, some without a sigh For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die.@barrybateman

From another Oscar: Some do the deed with many tears and some without a sigh, for each man kills the thing he loves...@OscarPistorius

Ten reasons why #India has a sexual violence problem: bit.ly/WcsaCJ via @Star_foreign.

I wish she didn't have to die. I wish she didn't become immortal. I wish she could have simply lived.