To pass through Grand Central Terminal, one of New York’s exalted public spaces, is an ennobling experience, a gift. To commute via the bowels of Penn Station, just a few blocks away, is a humiliation. Some 600,000 commuters, riding Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit, now suffer Penn Station every day. That makes it probably the... - http://shripriya.tumblr.com/post...
He said ‘Ours is not a democracy, it is psephocracy.’ This means that electoral votes determine everything. So that is quite obvious in this case. It just struck me that extremist Hindus put me on a ‘black list’ after I had written a piece called Marriage For Peace during the Kargil War. And now right-wing extremist Muslims are unhappy with the... - http://shripriya.tumblr.com/post...